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PREFACE. 



In the century which has elapsed since Dr. Dodd 
published his "Beauties of Shakspeare," many 
works of a similar nature have been produced, all 
tending to render familiar the beauty and variety of 
the Poet's language and conceptions. 

These works have generally comprised whole 
scenes, or lengthened passages, illustrating the dra- 
matic power of Shakspeare ; and the present is the 
first attempt to render his wit and wisdom practically 
available in supplying brief quotations applicable to 
the ordinary affairs of life. 

Brevity is the object chiefly sought by the present 
collection of Two Thousand Seven Hundred " Mot- 
toes and Aphorisms;" and facility in the use of 
them has, it is hoped, been attained by an Index 
comprising nearly Nine Thotisand References to the 
infinitely varied words and ideas of the Mottoes. 

To the Shakspearean student these short phrases, 
full of emphasis and power, abounding in Christian 
feeling and worldly wisdom, and sparkling with poetry 
and humour, will, it is believed, be acceptable in 
their collected form. The Mottoes are printed from 
the text of Mr. Charles Knight. 

T. E. J. 

September, 1869. 



MOTTOES AND APHORISMS 
FROM SHAKSPEARE. 



[ The numbers prefixed to the Mottoes are those referred to in the Index.] 



1. A braver place 

In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. 

i Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. r. 

2. A braver soldier never couched lance. 

i Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

3. A calendar, a calendar ! look in the almanac ; 

find out moon-shine, find out moon-shine. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

4. A care-crazed mother to a many sons — 
A beauty-waning and distressed widow. 

Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 7. 

5. A combination and a form indeed, 
Where every god did seem to set his seal 
To give the world assurance of a man. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

6. A contract of eternal bond of love 
Confirrn'd by mutual joinder of your hands. 

Twelfth N. . Act v. Sc. 1. 

7. A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

3. A cry more tuneable 

Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, 
In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

9. Adieu ! and take thy praise with thee to heaven. 

1 Henry I V., Act v. Sc. 4. 

10. Adieu ! be happy. Ant.&Clee. x Act iii. Sc. 2. 






2 


Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 


II. 


A dog's obey'd in office. Lear . . . Activ . Sc> 6> 


12. 


A double blessing is a double grace. 




Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 


13. 


A dream itself is but a shadow. 




Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 


14- 


Advice is often seen 




By blunting us, to make our wits more keen. 




A Lover s Complaint. 


15- 


A fair assembly ! Rom . & fttL% Act L Sc> 2> 


i6. 


A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, was by 




a mousing owl hawk'd at and killed. 




Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 4. 


J 7- 


A fault unknown is as a fault unacted. 




Rape of Lucrece. 


18. 


Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, 




And thou art wedded to calamity. 




Rom.&Jul., Act iii. Sc. 3. 


19. 


A fine volley of words, and quickly shot off. 




Two G. of V., Act ii. Sc. 3. 


20. 


A fool's bolt is SOOn shot. Henry V. . Act iii. Sc. 7. 


21. 


A friend i' the court is better than a penny in 




purse. 2 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 1. 


22. 


A friendly eye could never see such faults. 




Jul. Ccesar . Act iv. Sc. 3. 


23. 


Against love's fire, fear's frost hath dissolution. 




Rape of Lucrece. 


24. 


Against self-slaughter 




There is a prohibition so divine 




That cravens my weak hand. 




Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 4. 


25. 


Against the undivulg'd pretence I fight 




Of treasonous malice. Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 


26. 


Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 




Her infinite variety. Ant.&ciec, Act ii. Sc. 2. 


27. 


A gentleman of all temperance. 




M.for M. . Act iii. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 3 

28. A gentler heart did never sway in court. 

1 Henry VI, Act iii. Sc. 2. 

29. A glooming peace this morning with it brings; 
The sun for sorrow will not show his head. 

Rom.&Jzd., Act v. Sc. 3. 

30. A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross. 

Mer. of Ven., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

31. A good digestion to you all ; and once more 
I shower a welcome on you, — welcome all ! 

Henry VIII. , Act i. Sc. 4. 

32. A good heart is the sun and the moon ; or rather 

the sun ; for it shines bright and never changes. 

Henry V. . Act v. Sc. 2. 

33. A good heart's worth gold ! 2 // eur yiv, Act ii. Sc. 4 . 

34. A goodly house ; the feast smells well. 

Coriolanus . Act iv. Sc. 5. 

35. A good man's fortune may grow out at heels. 

Lear . . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

36. A good nose is requisite, to smell out work for 

the Other Senses. win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

37. A good wit will make use of anything. 

2 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 2. 

38. A greater Power than we can contradict 

Hath thwarted our intents. R m.&jul, Act v. Sc. 3. 

39. A halter pardon him ! and hell gnaw his bones ! 

Othello . . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

40. A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue. 

Loves L. L., Act v. Sc. 2. 

41. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me. 

Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

42. A hit, a very palpable hit. Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

43. Ah me ! for aught that ever I could read, 
Could ever hear in tale or history, 

The course of true love never did run smooth. 

Mid.N. Dr., Act i. Sc. i. 

44. A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! 

Richd. Ill ., Act v. Sc. 4. 



4 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

45. A hundred thousand welcomes ! 

Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

46. Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, 

Where death's approach is seen so terrible ! 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

47. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear 

Of him that hears it ; never in the tongue 

Of him that makes it. Love's L.L., Act v. Sc. 2. 

48. A jewel in a ten times barred-up chest, 
Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 1. 

49. A kinder gentleman treads not the earth. 

Mer.ofVen., Act ii. Sc. 8. 

50. A kind good night to all ! Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

51. A king of shreds and patches ! 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

52. A kiss 

Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge. 

Coriolam<s . Act v. Sc. 3. 

53. A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

54. Alack ! when once our grace we have forgot, 
Nothing goes right ; we would and we would not. 

M.for M. . Act iv. Sc. 4. 

55. Alas, poor world, what treasure hast thou lost ! 

Venus and Adonis. 

56. Alas, poor Yorick ! I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow 

of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

57. Alas ! that love, so gentle in his view, 
Should be so tyrannous and rough in use. 

Rom.&>Jul., Act i. Sc. 1. 

58. A light heart lives long. Love's L. L., Act v. Sc. 1. 

59. A light wife doth make a heavy husband. 

Mer.o/Ven., Act v. Sc. 1. 

60. A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act iii. Sc. 1. 





Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare 


• 5 


6i. 


A little fire is quickly trodden out, 
Which being suffer'd rivers cannot quench. 






3 Henry VI., Act iv 


. Sc. 8. 


62. 


A little more than kin, and less than kind. 






Hamlet . . Act i 


. Sc. 2. 


63. 


All days of glory, joy, and happiness. 






King John . Act iii 


Sc. 4. 


64. 


All faults I make, when I shall come to 


know 




them I do repent. win% Ta ie . Act iii 


Sc. 2. 


65. 


All friends shall taste 
The wages of their virtue, and all foes 
The cup of their deservings. 






Lear . . . Act v 


Sc. 3. 


66. 


All goes worse than I have power to tell. 






Richard II., Act iii 


Sc. 1. 


67. 


All hoods make not monks. Henry VI II., Act iii 


Sc. 1. 


68. 


All men are not alike ; alas, good neighbour ! 




Much Ado . Act iii. 


Sc 5 . 


69. 


All offences, my lord, come from the heart ; i 


lever 




came any from mine that might offend 


your 




majesty. Henry V. . Act iv. 


Sc. 8. 


70. 


All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth 

Rape of Lucrece. 




7i. 


All our yesterdays have lighted fools 






The way to dusty death. Macbeth . . Act v. 


Sc. 5. 


72. 


All places that the eye of Heaven visits 
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. 






Richard II., Act i. 


Sc. 3. 


73. 


All's not offence that indiscretion finds, 






And dotage terms so. Lear . . .Act ii. 


Sc. 4. 


74. 


All's well that ends well. AlVsWeli. . Activ 


Sc. 4. 


75- 


All that glisters is not gold. 






Mer. of Fen., Act ii. 


Sc. 7. 


76. 


All that lives must die, 
Passing through nature to eternity. 






Hamlet . . Act i. 


Sc. 2. 



6 Mottoes mid Aphorisms from S/iakspeare. 

77. All the budding honours on thy crest 
I'll crop, to make a garland for my head. 

i Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 4. 

78. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten 

This little hand. Macbeth . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

79. All the water in the ocean 

Can never turn a swan's black legs to white. 

Titus And. . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

80. All the world's a stage. a. V. L. I. . Act ii. Sc. 7 . 

81. All things that are, 

Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. 

Mer.ofVen., Act ii. Sc. 6. 

82. All tongues Speak Of him. Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

83. A loss of her 

That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years 
About his neck, yet never lost her lustre. 

Henry VIII., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

84. A lover may bestride the gossamer 
That idles in the wanton summer air 

And yet not fall. Rom.&JuL, Act ii. Sc. 6. 

85. A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. 

Loves L. L., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

86. A man can but die once ; — we owe a death. 

2 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

87. A man is never undone till he be hanged. 

Two G. of V., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

88. A man loves the meat in his youth that he can- 

not endure in his age. Much Ado. . Actii. Sc. 3. 

89. A man's life is a tedious one. 

Cymbelinc . Act iii. Sc. 6. 

90. A man's life's no more than to say, one. 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

91. A man who is the abstract of all faults 

That all men follow. Ant.&CUo. t Act i. Sc. 4. 

92. A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you. 

Much Ado. . Act iv. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 



93. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

94. A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight. 

Twelfth N. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

95. A merrier day did never yet greet Rome. 

Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 4. 

96. A merrier man, 
Within the limit of becoming mirth 
I never spent an hour's talk withal. 

Loves L. L., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

97. A merry heart goes all the day 
Your sad tires in a mile-a. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

98. A name unmusical to the Volscian's ears 
And harsh in sound to thine. 

Coriolanus . Act iv. Sc. 5. 

99. And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, 
So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 

T. of the S., Activ. Sc. 3. 

100. And be those juggling fiends no more believ'd, 
That palter with us in a double sense ; 

That keep the word of promise to our ear, 
And break it to our hope. M ac eth . . Act v. Sc. 7 . 

10 1. And do as adversaries do in law, 

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. 

T. of the S., Act i. Sc. 2. 

102. And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood. 

Henry V. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

103. And God befriend us, as our cause is just. 

1 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 1. 

104. And I by this will be a gainer too, 

For bending all my loving thoughts on thee. 

Sonnet 88. 

105. And I do hope good days, and long, to see. 

T. of the S., Act i. Sc. 2. 

106. And is it thus ? repays he my deep service 
With such contempt ? R ; c j u {, ///., Act iv . s c . s. 



8 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare, 

1 07. And liquor likewise will I give to thee. 

Henry V. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

108. And made them skirr away, as swift as stones 
Enforced from the old Assyrian slings. 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 7. 

109. And many strokes, though with a little axe, 
Hew down and fell the hardest timber'd oak. 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1 10. And may not young men die, as well as old ? 

T. of tJie S., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

111. And must I ravel out 

My Weav'd-Up follies ? Richard II, Act iv. Sc. 1. 

112. And now I will unclasp a secret book, 
And to your quick-conceiving discontents 
I'll read you matter deep and dangerous. 

1 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 3. 

113. And now what rests but that we spend the time, 
With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows, 
Such as befit the pleasures of the court. 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 7. 

114. And oftentimes, excusing of a fault 

Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

115. And once again, a pot o' the smallest ale. 

T. of the S., Induction. 

116. And poise the cause in justice' equal scales 
Whose beams stand sure, whose rightful cause 

prevails. 2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1 17. And she will sing the song that pleaseth you, 
And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep. 

1 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1 18. And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament, 
We will unite the white rose with the red. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 4. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 9 

119. And then, the justice ; 

In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, 
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut ; 
Full of wise saws and modern instances. 

A. Y. L. /., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

120. And then the lover 
Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad 
Made to his mistress's eyebrow. 

A. Y. L. /., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

121. And this our life, exempt from public haunt, 
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running 

brooks, 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 

A. Y. L. I., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

122. And thus the whirligig of time brings in his 

revenges. Twelfth N. . Act v. Sc t. 

123. And tidings do I bring, and lucky joys 
And golden times, and happy news of price. 

2 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 3. 

124. And what have kings that privates have not too ? 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

125. And will you rent our ancient love asunder 

To join with men in scorning your poor friend? 

Mid. N. Dr., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

126. Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! 

Hamlet . .Act i. Sc. 4. 

127. Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

128. Anger has a privilege. Lcar ... Act ii. Sc. 2. 

129. Anger's my meat ; I sup upon myself. 

Coriolanus . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

I 30. An habitation giddy and unsure 

Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. 

2 Henry 1 V., Act i. Sc. 3. 

131. An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 4. 



io Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 



132. An hour before the worshipp'd sun 
Peer'd forth the golden window of the east, 

A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad. 

Rom.&>Jul., Act i. Sc. 1. 

133. An I have not forgotten what the inside of a 

church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a 
brewer's horse. , Henry IVm% Act iiL Sc 3 _ 

134. An inviting eye ; and yet methinks right modest. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

135. An oath is of no moment, being not took 
Before a true and lawful magistrate. 

3 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 2. 

136. A noble temper dost thou show in this. 

King John . Act v. Sc. 2. 

137. An old man, broken with the storms of state, 
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye : 
Give him a little earth for charity ! 

HenryVIII., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

138. An old man is twice a child. 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

139. An't were not as good a deed as drink to break 

the pate of thee, I am a very villain. 

1 Henry I V., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

140. An unmannerly slave, that will thrust himself 

into secrets. Two a o/v ^ Act Ul Sc> x 

141. A peace above all earthly dignities; 
A still and quiet conscience 

Hen 7-yVIII ., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

142. A plague o' both your houses ! 

Rom.&>Jul., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

143. A plague of all cowards, I say! 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

144. A plague of sighing and grief! it blows a 

man up like a bladder. 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

145. A plague on thee, thou art too bad to curse. 

Tini.of Ath., Act iv. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 1 1 


146. 


A plague upon't, when thieves cannot be true 

One tO another ! x Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 2. 


147. 


Apollo, Pallas, Jove, or Mercury, 
Inspire me that I may this treason find. 

Titus And. . Act iv. Sc. 2. 


148. 


A prodigal course 
Is like the sun's ; but not, like his, recoverable. 

Tim. o/Ath., Act iii. Sc. 4. 


149. 


A proper stripling, and an amorous. 

T. of the S., Act i. Sc. 2. 


150. 


A quart of ale is a dish for a king. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 2. 


151. 


Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, 
Shrunk to this little measure ? 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 1. 


152. 


A rarer spirit never 
Did steer humanity. Ant.&cieo., Act v. Sc. x. 


153. 


Are the indentures drawn ? 

1 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 


154. 


Arm, fight, and conquer, for fair England's sake ! 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 


155- 


A Roman with a Roman's heart can suffer. 

Cymbeline .Act v. Sc. 5. 


156. 
157. 


A rotten case abides no handling. 

2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 1. 
A sad tale's best for winter. 

Win. Tale . Act ii. Sc. 1. 


' 158. 


As all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in 
love mortal in folly. At K Lt A> Act iL Sc< 4 . 


i59. 


As certain as I know the sun is fire. 

Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 4. 


160. 


As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true. 

Richard 11 ., Act iv. Sc. t. 


161. 


As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods : 
They kill us for their sports. 

Lear . . . .V '. iv. Sc. 1. 



2 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

162. As for his dreams, I wonder he's so simple 
To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers. 

Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

163. As full of spirit as the month of May, 
And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. 

1 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

164. As I have seen a swan 

With bootless labour swim against the tide, 
And spend her strength with over-matching 

Waves. 3 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 4. 

165. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, 

After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, 
Are idly bent on him that enters next. 

Richard II., Act v. Sc. 2. 

166. As I was then advised by my learned counsel 

in the laws of this land-service, I did not 

Come. 2 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 2. 

167. As jewels lose their glory if neglected, 
So princes their renown, if not respected. 

Pericles . .Act ii. Sc. 2. 

168. Ask God for temperance ; that's the appliance 

only which your disease requires. 

Henry VI 1 1., Act i. Sc. 1. 

169. A smile re-cures the wounding of a frown. 

Venus and Adonis. 

170. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

171. A soldier's a man : O man's life's but a span ; 
Why then let a soldier drink. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

172. Assume a virtue if you have it not. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

173. A staff is quickly found to beat a dog. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

174. A stirring dwarf we do allowance give 
Before a sleeping giant. Troilus&C, Act ii. Sc. 3. 





Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 13 


175- 


A stouter champion never handled sword. 

1 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 4. 


i 7 6. 


A substitute shines brightly as a king 

Until a king be by. Mer.o/Ven., Act v. Sc. i 


i77> 


As with a man busied about decrees 
Condemning some to death, and some to exile. 

Coriolanns . Act i. Sc. 6. 


178. 


As you do love, fill to your mistress' lips. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 


179. 


As you from crimes would pardon'd be 
Let your indulgence set me free. 

Tempest . . Act v. Sc. 1. 


180. 


A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty 




dish. Comedy of E., Act iii. Sc. 1. 


181. 


At a few drops of women's rheum, which are 
As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labour 




Of our great action. Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 5. 


182. 


A tapster is a good trade, m.w.o/w., Act i. Sc. 3. 


183. 


At first, the infant 
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. 

A. Y. L. I., Act ii. Sc. 7. 


184. 


At fools I laugh. Cymbeline . Act iv. Sc. 1. 


185. 


A thing devised by the enemy. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 


186. 


A thousand times, good-night. 

Rom. or- 5 Jul., Act ii. Sc. 2 


187. 


At lovers' perjuries 
They say Jove laughs. Rom.&Jul, Act ii. Sc. 2. 


188. 


A true devoted pilgrim is not weary. 

Two G. of V., Act ii. Sc. 6. 


189. 


A very ancient and fish-like smell. 

Tempest . . Act ii. Sc. _'. 


190. 


A very good piece of work I assure you, and a 




merry. Mid.N. Dr., Act L Sc 2. 



14 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

191. A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness. 

Alls Well. . Act Hi. Sc. 1. 

192. A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings 

home full numbers. Much Ado. . Act i. Sc. 1. 

193. A violet in the youth of primy nature, 
Forward, not permanent, sweet not lasting. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

194. Awake remembrance of these valiant dead. 

Henry V. . Act i. Sc. 2. 

195. Away, thou issue of a mangy dog ! 

Tiui.ofAtJi., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

196. A wicked day, and not a holyday. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

197. A widow cries ; be husband to me, heavens ! 

King JoJui . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

198. A woman impudent and mannish grown, 

Is not more loathed than an effeminate man 
In time of action. Troiius&c, Act iii. Sc. 3 . 

199. A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled. 

T. of the S., Act v. Sc. 2. 

200. A woman sometimes scorns what best contents 

her. Two G.ofV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

201. A woman's thought runs before her actions. 

A. Y. L. I., Activ. Sc. 1. 

202. A wonderful sweet air with admirable rich 

WOrds tO it. Cymbeline . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

203. A world of earthly blessings to my soul, 
If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. 

2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 1. 

204. Ay and no too was no good divinity. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 6. 

205. A young man married is a man that's marr'd. 

All's Well. . Actii. Sc. 3. ' 

206. Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts. 

2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 15 



207. Base is the slave that pays. 

Henry V. . Act ii. So. i. 

20S. Bear it as our Roman actors do, 

With untir'd spirits and formal constancy. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. i. 

209. Bear with my weakness. Tempest . . Activ. Sc. 1. 

210. Beat loud the tamborines, let the trumpets blow. 

Troilus&=C., Act iv. Sc. 5. 

211. Beat not the bones of the buried. 

Love's L. L., Act v. Sc. 2. 

212. Beauty blemished once, for ever's lost. 

Passionate Pilgrim, 2. 

213. Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye. 

Love's L. L., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

214. Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. 

Passionate Pilgrim, 2. 

215. Beauty itself doth of itself persuade 
The eyes of men, without an orator. 

Rape of Lucre ce. 

216. Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. 

A.Y.L. /..Act i. Sc. 3. 

217. Beauty's a flower. Twelfth N. t Act i. Sc. 5 . 

218. Beauty's princely majesty is such 
Confounds the tongue, and makes the senses 

rough. 1 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 3. 

219. Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear ! 

Rom.&Jul., Act i. Sc. 5. 

220. Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

221. Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb? 

Excuse not silence so ; for it lies in thee 
To make him much outlive a gilded tomb 
And to be praised of ages yet to be. 

Sonnet 101. 

222. Be check'd for silence, 
But never taxed for speech. 

All's Well . Act i. Sc. 1. 



1 6 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspearc. 

223. Beggars mounted run their horse to death. 

3 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 4. 

224. Begin, murderer; leave thy damnable faces, 

and begin. Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

225 Behold ! I have a weapon: 

A better never did itself sustain 
Upon a soldier's thigh ! othello . . Act v- Sc< 2> 

226. Being but young I framed to the harp 
Many an English ditty, lovely well. 

i Henry IV. , Act iii. Sc. 1. 

227. Be just and fear not. HenryVin., Act iii. Sc. 2 . 

228. Be kind and courteous to this gentleman. 

Mid. N.Dr., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

229. Believe me, on mine honour, 
My words express my purpose. 

M. for M. . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

230. Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back, 
When gold and silver becks me to come on. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

231. Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels 

And fly, like thought, from them to me again. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

232. Be not as extreme in submission 

As in offence. M ^ w% fw. % Act iv. Sc. 4 . 

233. Best safety lies in fear. Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3 - 

234. Be swift like lightning in the execution. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 3. 

235. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou 

shalt not escape calumny. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

236. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

237. Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth 
Than those old Nine which rhymers invocate. 

Sonnet 38. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 17 

238. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. 

Twelfth N. . Act i. Sc. 5. 

239. Better be with the dead, 
Than on the torture of the mind to lie 

In restless eCStacy. Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

240. Better it is to die, better to starve, 

Than crave the hire which first we do deserve. 

Coriolcunis . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

241. Better three hours too soon than a minute too 

late. m. IV. of IV., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

242. Between the acting- of a dreadful thing 
And the first motion, all the interim is 
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

243. Beware 

Of entrance to a quarrel ; but, being in, 
Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

244. Beware of jealousy ; 

It is a green-eyed monster, which doth mock 
The meat it feeds on. otheilo . . Act iii. Sc. 3 . 

245. Beware the ides of March. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

246. Bid me discourse ; I will enchant thine ear. 

Venus and Adonis. 

247. Bid the cheek be ready with a blush, 
Modest as morning, when she coldly eyes 
The youthful Phoebus. Troiius&c, Act i. Sc. 3 - 

248. Birds never limed no secret bushes fear. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

249. Blessed are the peacemakers on earth. 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

250. Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end ; 
Shame serves thy life, and doth thy death attend. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 4. 
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1 8 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

251. Blow till thou burst thy wind. 

Tempest . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

252. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! 

bl0W ! Lear ... Act iii. Sc. 2. 

253. Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable; 
He's all the mother's, from the top to toe. 

Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

254. Boundless intemperance 

In nature is a tyranny. Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

255. Break open shops ; nothing can you steal 

But thieves do lose it. Timj>fAth., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

256. Brevity is the soul of w r it, 

And tediousnessthe limbsand outward flourishes. 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

257. Briefly die their joys 

That place them on the truth of girls and boys. 

Cymbeliiie . Act v. Sc. 5. 

258. Brutus is wise, and were he not in health 
He would embrace the means to come by it. 

Jul. C&sar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

259. But if store of crowns be scant, 
No man will supply thy want. 

Passionate Pilgrim, i3. 

260. But in these nice, sharp quillets of the law, 
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. 

1 He?iry VI., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

261. But kings, and mightiest potentates, must die ; 
For that's the end of human misery. 

1 He?iry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

262. But let one spirit of the first-born Cain 
Reign in all bosoms, that each heart being set 
On bloody courses, the rude scene may end, 
And darkness be the burier of the dead ! 

2 Henry IV'., Act i. Sc. 1. 

263. But love is blind, and lovers cannot see 
The pretty follies that themselves commit. 

Mer.o/Ven., Act ii. Sc 6. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 19 

264. But most it is presumption in us, when 

The help of Heaven, we count the act of men. 

Alls Well. . Act ii. Sc. i. 

265. But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy 
Must sanctify his relics. AWs WelL % Act L Sc x< 

266. But screw your courage to the sticking-place 

And we'll not fail. Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 7. 

267. But shall we dance, if they desire us to 't ? 

Love's L. L., Act v. Sc. 2. 

268. But, soft ! what light through yonder window 

breaks ! 
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! 

Rom.&Jul., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

269. But this lies all within the will of God. 

Henry V. . Act i. Sc. 2. 

270. But yesterday the word of Caesar might 
Have stood against the world ; now lies he here, 
And none so poor to do him reverence. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

271. But yet the pity of it, Iago ! O Iago, the pity 

of it, Iago ! 0thdlo . % Activ . sc. I( 

272. But you, my lord, were glad to be employed, 
To show how quaint an orator you are. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

273. By all the blood that ever fury breathed, 

The youth Says well. King John . Act v. Sc. 2. 

274. By heaven ! I'll hate him everlastingly 
That bids me be of comfort any more. 

Richard II, Act iii. Sc. 2. 

275. By heaven ! methinks it were an easy leap 

To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon. 

1 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 3. 

276. By Jupiter ! 
This shall not be revoked ! 

Lear . . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

277. By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death 
Will seize the doctor too. CynibeUm . Act v. Sc. 5. 



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Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 


278. 


By the pricking of my thumbs, 
Something wicked this way comes. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 


279- 


By our ears our hearts oft tainted be. 

Rape of Lucrece. 


28o. 


Call you that backing of your friends ? 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 


281. 


Calumny will sear 

Virtue itself. Win. Tale . Act ii. Sc. 1. 


282. 


Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray 
That I may live to say, the dog is dead ! 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 4. 


283. 


Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile, 
And touch thy instrument a strain or two ? 

Jul. C&sar . Act iv. Sc. 3* 


284. 


Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ? 

Macbeth . . Act v. Sc. 3. 


285. 


Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's 

knee, 
Command the health of it ? 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 


286. 


Can such things be, 
And overcome us like a summer cloud, 
Without our special wonder ? 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 


287. 


Can you not read it ? Is it not fair writ ? 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 1. 


288. 


Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. 

Rom.&>JuL, Act ii. Sc. 3. 


289. 


Care's an enemy to life. Twelfth N., Act i. Sc. 3. 


290. 


Cause the musicians play me that sad note 
I named my knell, whilst I sit meditating 
On that celestial harmony I go to. 

Henry Fill., Act iv. Sc. 2. 


291. 


Cease to lament for that thou canst not help. 

TivoG.ofV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 21 

292. Celerity is never more admired 

Than by the negligent. Am.&cieo., Act iii. Sc. 9. 

293. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine, 

I Will Obey thee ! Pericles . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

294. Ceremony was but devised at first 
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, 
But where there is true friendship, there needs 

none. Tim.of A tk., Act i. Sc. 2. 

295. Change places, and, handy-dandy, which is the 

justice, 
Which is the thief? Lear ... Act iv. Sc. 6. 

296. Chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy. 

A. Y. L.I., Activ. Sc. 2. 

297. Childish fear, avaunt ! Rape of Lucrece. 

298. Civil dissension is a viperous worm 

That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. 

1 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. i. 

299. Clay and clay differs in dignity, 

Whose dust is both alike. Cymbeline . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

300. Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun. 

Sonnet 35. 

301. Cold snow melts with the sun's hot beams. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

302. Come and crush a cup of wine. 

Rom.&Jul., Act i. Sc. 2. 

303. Come, and take choice of all my library. 

Titus And., Activ. Sc. 1. 

304. Come in, and let us banquet royally. 

1 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 6. 

305. Come, lay aside your stitchery ; I must have 

you play the idle huswife with me this after- 
noon. Coriolanus . Act i. Sc. 3. 

306. Come, let us hear this music. 

Much Ado. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 



22 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

307. Come like shadows ; so depart ! 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

308. Come, seeling night, 
Skarf up the tender eye of pitiful day. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

309. Come, some music ; come, the recorders. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

310. Come, thou monarch of the vine! 

Anl.&*Clco., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

311. Comets, importing change of times and states, 
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky. 

1 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 1. 

312. Come, woo me, woo me ; for now I am in a 

holiday humour, and like enough to con- 
sent- A. Y.L. I., Activ. Sc. 1. 

313. Company, villainous company, hath been the 

spoil Of me. x Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

314. Comparisons are odorous. Much Ado. . Act iii. Sc.5. 

315. Compliment is like the encounter of two dog- 

apes. A% Y . L. I., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

316. Com'st thou with deep premeditated lines, 
With written pamphlets studiously devised ? 

1 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. r. 

317. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it ? 

M.forM. . Act ii. St. 2. 

318. Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit ! 

I dare damnation. Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 5. 

319. Conscience doth make cowards of us all. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. i. 

320. Conscience is a word that cowards use, 
Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

321. Costly thy habit as thy purse will buy, 

But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 23 



322. Could beauty have better commerce than with 

honesty ? Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. i. 

323. Could I come near thy beauty with my nails 
I'd set my ten commandments in your face. 

2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 3. 

324. Counsel may stop a while what will not stay. 

A Lover's Complaint. 

325. Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

326. Courage mounteth with occasion. 

King John . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

327. Covering discretion with a coat of folly 

As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots 
That shall first spring and be most delicate. 

Henry V. . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

328. Coward dogs 

Most spend their mouths, when what they seem 

to threaten 
Runs far before them. Henry Vm . Act n Sc . 4> 

329. Cowards die many times before their deaths; 
The valiant never taste of death but once. 

Jtcl. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

330. Crabbed age and youth 

Cannot live together. Passionate Pilgrim, 10. 

331. Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, 
And so am come abroad to see the world. 

T. of the S., Act i. Sc. 2. 

332. Cymbeline lov'd me ; 

And when a soldier was the theme, my name 

Was not far Off. Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

333. Death and destruction dog thee at thy heels. 

Rickd. III., Act iv. Sc. r. 

334. Death lies on her, like an untimely frost 
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. 

Pom.&>Jul., Act iv. Sc. 4. 



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24 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 



335. Death makes no conquest of this conqueror 
For now he lives in fame, though not in life. 

Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

336. Death may usurp on nature many hours 
And yet the fire of life kindle again. 

Pericles . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

337. Death once dead, there's no more dying then. 

Sojmet 146. 

338. Death's a fearful thing. M% forM . , Act iiL Sc . t< 

339. Death's the end of all. Rom.&jui., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

340. Death, that dark spirit, in 's nervy arm doth lie ; 
Which being advane'd, declines ; and then men 

O- 1 ^' Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. i. 

341. Deeper than did ever plummet sound 

I'll drown my book. Tempest . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

342. Deep malice makes too deep incision. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. i. 

343. Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night, 
The time of night when Troy was set on fire. 

2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 4. 

344. Deep sounds make lesser noise than shallow 

fo r ds. R a p e f l ucrece. 

345. Defend your reputation, or bid farewell to your 

good life for ever. 

M. W.ofW., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

346. Defer no time ; delays have dangerous ends. 

1 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

347. Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

348. Desolate, desolate, will I hence and die, 
The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye. 

Richard II, Act i. Sc. 2. 

349. Devise wit ; write pen ; for I am for whole 

volumes in folio. Lovc < s L , L Act ;. Sc . 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 25 

350. Did my heart love till now ? forswear it, sight! 
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. 

Rom.&Jid., Act i. Sc. 5. 

351. Discomfort guides my tongue 
And bids me speak of nothing but despair. 

Richard II. , Act iii. Sc. 1. 

352. Discourse is heavy, fasting. 

Cymbelbie . Act iii. Sc. 6. 

353. Diseases desperate grown 
By desperate appliance are relieved. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

354. Distribution should undo excess, 
And each man have enough. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. r. 

355. Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel 

of the mouth. M.w.o/w., Act i. Sc i. 

356. Do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

357. Do not presume too much upon my love, 
I may do that I shall be sorry for. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

358. Do not seek to stuff 
My head with more ill news, for it is full. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

359. Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily. 

1 Henry IF., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

360. Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there 

shall be no more cakes and ale ? 

Twelfth N. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

361. Doth like a miser spoil his coat with scanting 
A little cloth. //( . ;/;j r . . Ac t ii. Sc. 4 . 

362. Do thy worst, old Time ; despite thy wrong, 
My love shall in my verse ever live young. 

Sonnet 19. 



26 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

363. Doubtful it stood 

As two spent swimmers, that do cling together 
And choke their art. Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

364. Doubting things go ill often hurts more 
Than to be sure they do. Cymbeline . Act i. Sc. 6. 

365. Doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

366. Down on your knees, 
And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's 

love. a. v. L. I., Act iii. Sc. 5. 

367. Do you not know I am a woman ? when I think 

I must speak. A . Y . L. I., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

368. Do you think I am easier to be played on 

than a pipe ? Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

369. Dreams are toys. Win. Tale . Act iii. Sc. 3 . 

370. Drones hive not with me. Mer% o/Ven., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

371. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind pup- 

pies ! Othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

372. Dull not device by coldness and delay. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

373. Dumb jewels often, in their, silent kind, 

More than quick words, do move a woman's 

mind. Two G. of V., Act iii. Sc. u 

374. Duty never yet did want its meed. 

Two G.o/V., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

375. Each heart in Rome does love and pity you. 

Ant.&Clco., Act iii. Sc. 6. 

376. Earthly power doth then show likest God's 
When mercy seasons justice. 

Mcr.ofVai., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

377. Easy it is 
Of a cut loaf to steal a shive. 

Titus And., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

3 78. Eating the bitter bread of banishment. 

Richard II., Act iii. Sc. Z. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 27 

379. Eight wild boars roasted whole at a breakfast, 

and but twelve persons there : Is this true ? 

Ant.&Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

380. Epicurean cooks 
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. 

Ant.&Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

381. Even thus two friends condemned 
Embrace, and kiss, and take ten thousand leaves. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

382. Even so by love the young and tender wit 

Is turn'd to folly. Two a o/v , t Act i. Sc. i. 

383. Even so great men, great losses should endure. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

384. Evermore thanks, — the exchequer of the poor. 

Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

385. Every bondman in his own hand bears 
The power to cancel his captivity. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 3. 

386. Every cloud engenders not a storm. 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 3. 

387. Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the in- 

gredient is a devil. Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

388. Every man will be thy friend, 
Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend. 

Passiotiate Pilgrim, iS. 

389. Every mother breeds not sons alike. 

Titus And., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

390. Everything that grows 
Holds in perfection but a little moment. 

Sonnet 15. 

391. Every true man's apparel fits your thief. 

M.forM. . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

392. Excellently done, if God did all. 

Twelfth N. . Act i. Sc. 5. 

393. Experience is by industry achieved. 

TwoCo/Vn Act i. Sc. 5. 



28 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 

394. Experience, Oh ! thou disprov'st report. 

Cymbelinc . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

395. Extreme fear doth neither fight nor fly. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

396. Eyes, look your last ! 
Arms, take your last embrace ! 

Rom.&>Jul., Act v. Sc. 3. 

397. Faint not, faint heart, but stoutly say, So be it. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

398. Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak. 

1 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 3. 

399. Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor ; 
Most choice, forsaken ; and most lov'd, despis'd ! 

Lear . . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

400. Fair flowers that are not gathered in their prime 
Rot and consume themselves in little time. 

Venus and Adonis. 

401. Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers. 

T. of the S., Act i. Sc. 2. 

402. Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you. 

Mer. ofVen., Act iii. Sc. 4. 

403. Faithful friends are hard to find. 

Passionate Pilgrim t 18. 

404. False face must hide what the false heart cloth 

know. Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 7. 

405. Falsehood 

Is worse in kings than beggars. 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 6. 

406. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! 

Henry VI 1 1., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

407. Farewell : the leisure and the fearful time 
Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love. 

Richd. Ill, Act v. Sc. 3. 

408. Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

409. Farewell ! thou art too dear for my possessing. 

Sonnet Sj. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 29 

410. Fat paunches have lean pates ; and dainty bits 
Make rich the ribs, but bankerout the wits. 

Love's L. L., Act i. Sc. i. 

411. Fear and not love, begets his penitence. 

Richard II., Act v. Sc. 3. 

412. Fearful commenting 
Is leaden servitor to dull delay. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

413. Fear we broadsides ? no, let the fiend give fire! 

2 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

414. Feast with the best, and welcome to my house. 

T. of the S., Act v. Sc. 2. 

415. Feast your ears with the music awhile. 

Tim. o/Ath., Act iii. Sc. 6. 

416. Few love to hear the sins they love to act. 

Pericles . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

417. Fight, gentlemen of England ! fight, bold yeo- 

men ! 
Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head ! 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

418. Fill me a bowl of wine. Richd. in., Act v. Sc. 3 . 

419. Fill our bowls once more, 
Let's mock the midnight bell. 

Ant.&Cleo., Act iii. Sc. 11. 

420. Fill thy purse with money. 

Othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

421. Fine word, — legitimate! Lear . . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

422. Flattery is the bellows blows up sin. 

Pericles . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

423. Fleet-winged duty with thought's feathers flies. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

424. Fling away ambition. Henry VI I L, Act iii. Sc. 2. 

425. Folly in fools bears not so strong a note 

As foolery in the wise. Lav/s z< L% Act v> Sc< 2> 

426. Food for powder: they'll fill a pit as well as 

better ; tush, man, mortal men, mortal men. 

1 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 2. 



30 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

427. Foolery does walk about the orb like the sun ; 

it shines everywhere. Twelfth N. . Act in. Sc. 1. 

428. Fools are like husbands as pilchards are to her- 

rings, the husband's the bigger. 

Twelfth N. . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

429. Fools are not mad folks. Cymbelbte . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

430. Tore heaven, an excellent song. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

431. Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. i. 

432. Forget to pity him, lest thy pity prove 

A serpent that will sting thee to the heart. 

Richard II. , Act v. Sc. 3. 

433- Forgive us our sins ! otheilo . . Act ii. Sc. 3 . 

434. For God's sake, a pot of small ale. 

T. of the S., Induction. 

435. For he that steeps his safety in true blood 
Shall find but bloody safety and untrue. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

436. For his bounty, 
There was no winter in't : an autumn 'twas, 
That grew the more by reaping. 

Ant.&Cleo., Act v. Sc. 2. 

437. For how can tyrants safely govern home, 
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance ? 

3 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

438. For in my youth I never did apply 
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood : 
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, 
Frosty, but kindly. A . v. L. I. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

439. For I shall suttler be 
Unto the camp, and profits shall accrue. 

Henry V. . Act ii. Sc. I. 

440. For my part, I do wish thou wert a dog, 
That I might love thee something. 

Tim. cfAth., Act iv. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphoris7iis from Shaksfieare. 31 

441. For my voice I have lost it with hollaing and 

singing of anthems. 

2 Henry IV. , Act i. Sc. 2. 

442. For one sweet grape, who will the vine destroy? 

Rape of Lucrece. 

443. For secresy, 

No lady closer ; for I will believe, 

Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know. 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

444. For such an injury would vex a saint. 

T. of the S., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

445. For this they have engrossed and pil'd up 
The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold. 

2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

446. For though mine enemy thou hast ever been, 
High sparks of honour in thee have I seen. 

Richard II., Act v. Sc. 6. 

447. Fortune and victory sit on thy helm ! 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

448. Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. 

Cymbeline . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

449. Fortune, good night ; smile once more ; turn 

thy wheel ! Lear . . . Ac t ii. Sc. 2. 

450. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the 

lineaments of nature. a. y. l. i. . Act i. Sc. 2. 

451. For us, and for our tragedy, 
Here stooping to your clemency, 
We beg your hearing patiently. 

Hajnlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

452. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, 
An age of discord and continual strife ? 

1 Henry VI. , Act v. Sc. 5. 

453. For where is any author in the world 
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye. 

Love's L. L., Act iv. Sc. 3. 



32 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

454. / Foul deeds will rise, 
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's 

e Y es * Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

455. Foul-spoken coward, that thund'rest with thy 

tongue, 
And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform. 

Titus And. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

456. Foul words and frowns must not repel a lover. 

Venus &* Adonis. 

457. For where thou art, there is the world itself, 
And where thou art not, desolation. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

458. Frailty, thy name is woman ! 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

459. Frame your mind to mirth amoment, 
Which barsathousand harms, and lengthens life. 

T. of the S., Induction 2. 

460. France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits 
The tread of a man's foot. 

AlV s Well. . Actii. Sc. 3. 

46 1 . Free vent of words love's fierce fire doth assuage, 
But when the heart's attorney once is mute 
The client breaks as desperate in his suit. 

Venus &> Adonis. 

462. Fresh tears 
Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew 
Upon a gather'd lily. Titus And. . Act iii. Sc. i. 

463. Friendship is constant in all other things 
Save in the office and affairs of love. 

Much Ado. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

464. From fairest creatures we desire increase. 

Sonnet 1. 

465. From this moment 

The very firstlings of my heart shall be 
The firstlings of my hand. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

466. Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 33 

467. Full fathom five thy father lies. 

Tempest . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

468. Full many a glorious morning have I seen 
Flatter the mountain tops with golden eye. 

Sonnet 33. 

469. Full oft we see 
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. 

All's Well. . Act i. Sc. 1. 

470. Full well hath Clifford play'd the orator. 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

471. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity 

Shall you pace forth ; your praise shall still 

find room, 
Even in the eyes of all posterity. 

Sonnet 55. 

472. Gallop apace, you fiery- footed steeds, 
Towards Phoebus' lodging. 

Rom.&Jul., Act Hi. Sc. 2. 

473. Gentle breath of yours, my sails 
Must fill, or else my project fails. 

Tempest . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

474. Get thee glass eyes ; 
And, like a scurvy politician, seem 
To see the things thou dost not. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 6. 

475. Get your apparel together ; good strings to your 

beards, new ribbons to your pumps ; for the 
short and the long is, our play is preferred. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

476. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

477- Give me a bowl of wine. 

In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

478. Give mc a cup of sack. , IIcnry lVt% Act iL Sc 4> 

479. Give me another horse, — bind up my wounds. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 



34 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

480. Give me an ounce of civet ; good apothecary, 

sweeten my imagination ! 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 6. 

481. Give me drink : Hamlet, this pearl is thine ; 

here's to thy health. Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

482. Give me some music. Twelfth N. . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

483. Give me some music ; — music, moody food 

Of us that trade in love. Ant.&CUo., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

484. Give me some wine, fill full. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

485. Give me that man 

That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him 
In my heart's core ; ay, in my heart of heart. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

486. Give me this fellow, Shadow ; he presents no 

mark to the enemy ; the foeman may with 
as great aim level at the edge of a pen- 
knife, o Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

487. Give me thy hand, 

One writ with me in sour misfortune's book ! 

Rom. & Jul., Act v. Sc. 3. 

488. Give me thy hand, 'tis late ; farewell, good night. 

Rom.&Jul., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

489. Give me worship and quietness ; 
I like it better than a dangerous honour. 

3 Heyiry VI., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

490. Give not a windy night a rainy morrow. 

Soiuiet 90. 

491. Give the devil his due. IIenry Vm . Ac t iii. Sc 7 . 

492. Give thy thoughts no tongue. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

493. Give thy worst of thoughts 

The WOrst of words. Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

494. Glory is like a circle in the water, 
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself. 

1 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 35 

495. Gloster, 'tis true, that we are in great danger ; 
The greater therefore should our courage be. 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. i. 

496. God defend the right ! {fS£#; Act it &] I 

497. God forgive US all ! Macbeth . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

498. God is OUr fortress. x Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

499. God keep the prince from all the pack of you ! 

Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

500. God mend your voices ! Am Y . L. I. . Act v. Sc. 2. 

501. God rest all Christian souls ! 

Rom. & Jul, Act i. Sc. 3. 

502. God's benison go with you ; and with those 
That would make good of bad, and friends of 

foes ! Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

503. God's blessing on your beard ! 

Love's L. L., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

504. God send every one their heart's desire! 

Much Ado. . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

505. God, the best maker of all marriages, 
Combine your hearts in one ! 

Henry V. . Act v. Sc. 2. 

506. Go in with me, and counsel every man 
The aptest way for safety and revenge. 

2 Henry IV, Act i. Sc. 1. 

507. Gold cannot come amiss, were she a devil. 

2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 2. 

508. Gold that's put to use more gold begets. 

Venus &> Adonis. 

509. Gold were as good as twenty orators, 
And will no doubt tempt him to anything. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

510. Gold ! yellow, glittering, precious gold ! 

Tim.o/Atk,, Act iv. Sc. 3. 

511. Good counsellors lack no clients. 

M. for M. . Act i. Sc. 2. 



36 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

512. Good cousin, give me audience for a while 
And list to me. z Henry IVy Act L Sc> 3> 

5 1 3. Good friends, go in and taste some wine with me. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

5 1 4. Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up 
To such a sudden flood of mutiny. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

5 1 5. Good lord ! what madness rules in brain-sick men. 

1 He?iry VI. , Act iv. Sc. 1. 

516. Good morrow to this fair assembly. 

Much Ado. . Act v. Sc. 4. 

5 1 7. Good morrow to you all. 2 Henry IK> Act [Vu Sc- x ; 

518. Good name, in man or woman, 
Is the immediate jewel of their souls. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

519. Goodness and he fill up one monument. 

Henry VI I I., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

520. Good night, good night! parting is such sweet 

sorrow, 
That I shall say good night till it be morrow. 

Rom.&Jul., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

52 1, Good night, gOOd rest ! Passionate Pilgrim, 12. 

522. Good night, ladies ; good night, sweet ladies. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 5. 

523. Good night, sweet friend : 
Thy love ne'er alter, till thy sweet life end. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

524. Good pasture makes fat sheep. 

A. V. L. I. . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

525. Good phrases are surely, and ever where, very 

commendable. 2 Henry IVm% Act iii. Sc. 2. 

$26. Good reasons must of force give place to better. 

Jul. Casar . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

527. Good sentences, and well pronounced. 

Mer. o/Ven., Act i. Sc. 2. 

528. Good things should be praised. 

TwoG.o/V., Act iii. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 37 

529. Good wax, thy leave. Bless'd be 

You bees that make these locks of counsel ! 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

530. Good wits will be jangling. 

Loves L. L., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

531. Good wine is a good familiar creature. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

532. Good words are better than bad strokes. 

Jul. Cccsar . Act v. Sc. 1. 

533. Go, suck the subtle blood of the grape, 
Till the high fever seeth your blood to froth. 

Tim. o/Ath., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

534. Go with me to the ale-house, if not, thou art not 

worth the name of a Christian. 

Two G. of V., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

535. Grace and remembrance be to you ! 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

536. Greatest scandal waits on greatest state. 

Rape of L ucrece. 

537. Great floods have flown 

From simple sources. AWs WelL , Act iL Sc . I# 

538. Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread, 
But at a frown they in their glory die. 

Souuet 25. 

539. Grief best is pleased with grief's society. 

Rape of I. ucrece. 

540. Grief boundeth where it falls, 
Not with the empty hollowness, but weight. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 2. 

541. Grief fills the room up of my absent child. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

542. Grief makes one hour ten. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 3. 

543. Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast. 

Rom.&Jul.t Act i. Sc. 1. 



38 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

544. Had I but died an hour before this chance, 
I had lived a blessed time. 

Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

545. Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me 
Thou would'st appear most ugly. 

Ant. &>Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

546. Ha, majesty ! how high thy glory towers 
When the rich blood of kings is set on fire ! 

Kiiig John . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

547. Hang up philosophy ! Rom.&JuL, Act iii. Sc. 3. 

548. Haply a woman's voice may do some good 
When articles too nicely urg'd be stood on. 

Henry V. . Act v. Sc. i. 

549. Happy are they that hear their detractions, and 

can put them to mending. 

Much Ado. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

550. Happy monarchs still are feared for love. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

551. Hark, hark ! I hear the minstrels play. 

T. of the S., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

552. Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings. 

Cymbeline . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

553. Has friendship such a faint and milky heart, 
It turns in less than two nights ? 

Tim. of A th., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

554. Hast thou not worldly pleasure at command 
Above the reach or compass of thy thought ? 

2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 2. 

555. Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there, 
That kills and pains not ? Ant.&CUo., Act v. Sc 2. 

556. Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. 

3 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

557. Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night, 
Are they not but in Britain ? 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 4. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 39 

558. Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far 
To be afeard to tell greybeards the truth ? 

Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

559. Have more than thou showest ; 
Speak less than thou knowest ; 
Lend less than thou owest. 

Lear . . . Act i. Sc. 4. 

560. Have open eye, for thieves do foot by night. 

M. W.oflV., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

561. Have patience, and endure. 

Much Ado. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

562. Have we no wine here ? coriolanus . Act i. Sc. 9. 

563. Have you not heard it said full oft, 

A woman's nay doth stand for nought. 

Passionate Pilgrim, 17. 

564. He a captain ! Hang him, rogue ! He lives 

upon mouldy stewed prunes and dried cake. 

2 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

565. Hear you this Triton of the minnows ? mark you 

His absolute shall ? Coriolanus . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

566. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot 

That it do singe yourself. Henry VIII ^ Act L Sc# x< 

567. Heaven forgive our sins ! Mm w.o/w., Act v. Sc. 5. 

568. Heaven give you many, many merry days ! 

M. \V. of IV., Act v. Sc. 5. 

569. Heaven hath a hand in these events. 

Richard II., Act v. Sc. 2. 

570. Heaven in thy good cause make thee prosperous ! 

Richard II, Act i. Sc. 3. 

571. Heaven is above all yet. There sits a judge 
That no king can corrupt. IIniry vni., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

572. Heaven make you better than your thoughts. 

-V. ll'.r/I!'., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

573- Heaven mend all ! Cymbeline . Act v. Sc. 5. 



40 Mottoes and Aphorisms froi?i Shakspeare. 

574. Heaven prosper our sport ! 

M. IV. 0/ IV. , Act v. Sc. 2. 

575. Heaven's above all ; and there be souls that 

must be saved, and there are souls must not 

be Saved. Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

576. Heaven still guards the right. 

Richard II. , Act iii. Sc. 2. 

577. He cannot take two from twenty for his heart, 
And leave eighteen. Cymbdine . Act ii. Sc. i. 

578. He carries anger as the flint bears fire ; 
Which, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, 
And straight is cold again. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

579. He did in the general bosom reign, 

Of yOUng, Of Old. A Lover's Complaint. 

580. He does me double wrong 

That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. 

Richard II., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

581. He doth bestride the narrow world 
Like a Colossus. y uL C cesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

582. He flatters you, makes war upon your life. 

Pericles . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

583. He frets like a gummed velvet. 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

584. He had the dialect, and different skill, 
Catching all passions in his craft of will. 

A Lover s Complaint. 

585. He has a sin 

That often drowns him, and takes his valour 
prisoner. Tim / A th., Act iii. Sc. 5. 

586. He has done nobly, and cannot go without any 

honest man's voice. Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

587. He has no more pity in him than a dog. 

TwoG. of V., Act ii. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphoris7?is fro??i Shakspeare. 41 

588. He hath a daily beauty in his life. 

Othello . . Act v. Sc. i. 

589. He hath a kind of honour sets him off 
More than a mortal seeming. 

Cymbeline . Act i. Sc. 6. 

590. He hath a tear for pity, and a hand 
Open as day to melting charity. 

2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

591. He hath deserv'd worthily of his country. 

Coriolamis . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

592. He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes ; 

no milliner can so fit his customers with 

gloves. Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

593. He is a great observer, and he looks 
Quite through the deeds of men. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2-, 

594. He is a happy king, since from his subjects 
He gains the name of good by his government. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. r. 

595. He is as full of valour as of kindness. 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 2-. 

596. He is a worthy man ! Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

597. He is complete in feature and in mind, 
With all good grace to grace a gentleman. 

Two G. of V., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

598. He is given 

To sports, to wildness, and much company. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

599. He is the rock ; — the oak, not to be wind-shakem 

Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 2. 

600. He is too disputable for my company. 

A. V. L. I. . Act ii. Sc. 5. 

601. He is truly valiant that can wisely suffer 
The worst that man can breathe. 

Tiju.ofAth., Act iii. Sc. 5. 

602. He is well paid that is well satisfied. 

Mer.ofl 'cn. y Act iv, Sc t u 



42 


Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcarc. 


603. 


He jests at scars that never felt a wound. 

Rom. &> Jul., Act ii. Sc. 2. 


604. 


Helen must needs be fair 
When with your blood you daily paint her thus. 

Troilus&C, Act i. Sc. 1. 


605. 


He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. 

Titus And. . Act i. Sc. 1. 


6o6. 


He loves no plays, 
As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 


607. 


He may my proffer take for an offence, 
Since men take women's gifts for impudence. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 


608. 


He must needs go that the devil drives. 

A IPs Well. .Act i. Sc. 3. 


609. 


Hence, horrible shadow ! 
Unreal mockery, hence ! Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 4 . 


610. 


Hence ! I am qualmish at the smell of leek. 

Henry V. . Act v. Sc. 1. 


611. 


Hence, rotten thing, or I shall shake thy bones 
Out of thy garments ! Coriolanns . Act iii. Sc. 1. 


612. 


Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night 
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. 

Rom. & Jul., Act i. Sc. 5. 


613. 


Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words 
That ever blotted paper ! Mcr.o/Ven., Act iii. Sc. 2. 


614. 


Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth. 

Mid. X. Dr., Act v. Sc. i. 


615. 


Here our play hath ending. 

Pericles . .Act v. Sc. 3. 


616. 


Here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's 




right in the law. Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 


617. 


Here's metal more attractive. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 43 

6 1 8. Here's Nestor, — 
Instructed by the antiquary times, 

He must, he is, he cannot but be wise. 

Troilus&C., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

619. Here's nothing- to be got now-a-days, unless 

thou canst fish for 't. Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

620. Here's that, which is too weak to be a sinner, 
Honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire. 

Tim. o/Ath., Act i. Sc. 2. 

621. Here with a cup that's stored unto the brim 
We drink this health to you. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 5. 

622. Her looks do argue her replete with modesty, 
Her words do show her wit incomparable. 

3 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

623. Her sunny locks 
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece. 

Mer.ofVen., Act i. Sc. 1. 

624. Her voice was ever soft, 

Gentle and low; — an excellent thing in woman. 

Lear . . . Act v. Sc. 3. 

625. He seemed in running to devour the way, 
Staying- no longer question. 

2 Henry IV. y Act i. Sc. 1. 

626. He's honest, on mine honour. 

Henry]'' 1 1 1., Act v. Sc. 1. 

627. He sits 'mongst men like a descended god. 

Cynibeline . Act i. Sc. 6. 

628. He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, 

a horse's heels, or a boy's love. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 6. 

629 He's poor in no one fault, but stored with all. 

Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

630. He's something stain'd 

With grief, that's beauty's canker. 

Tempest . .Act i. Sc. 2. 



44 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

631. He's speaking now 

Or murmuring, "Where's my serpentof old Nile?" 
For so he calls me. Ant.&cieo., Act i. Sc 5. 

632. He ten times pines that pines beholding food. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

633. He that can lay hold of her 
Shall have the chinks. Rom.&jui., Act i. Sc. 5. 

634. He that depends 
Upon your favour swims with fins of lead, 
And hews down oaks with rushes. 

Coriolanus . Act i. Sc. i. 

635. He that dies this year is quit for the next. 

2 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

636. He that doth the ravens feed, 
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, 

Be comfort to my age ! A. Y.L.I. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

637. He that filches from me my good name, 
Robs me of that which not enriches him, 
But makes me poor indeed. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. . 

638. He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and 

he that hath no beard is less than a man. 

Much Ado. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

639. He that hath a will to die by himself, fears it 

not from another. Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 2. 

640. He that hath the steerage of my course, 
Direct my sail ! Rom.&Jul. t Act L Sc. 4. 

641. He that has a house to put his head in has a 

gOOd head-piece. Lear . . .Act iii. Sc. 2. 

642. He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. 

T. of the S., Act v. Sc. 2. 

643. He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, 
Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 45 



644. He that is stricken blind cannot forget 
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. 

Rom. & Jul, Act i. Sc. i. 

645. He that is thy friend indeed, 
He will help thee at thy need. 

Passionate Pilgrim, 18. 

646. He that loves to be flatter'd is worthy of the 

flatterer. Tim f Atht} Act 1 Sc . 1. 

647. He that of greatest works is finisher, 
Oft does them by the weakest minister. 

All's Welt. . Act ii. Sc. i. 

648. He that runs fastest gets the ring. 

T. of the S., Act i. Sc. i. 

649. He that sleeps feels not the toothache. 

Cymbetine . Act iv. Sc. 4. 

650. He that stands upon a slippery place 
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

651. He that strikes 

The venison first shall be the lord o' the feast. 

Cymbetine . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

652. He that wants money, means, and content, is 

without three good friends. 

A. Y. L. I. . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

653. He that will give good words to thee will flatter 
Beneath abhorring. Coriolanus . Act i. Sc. x. 

654. He that will have a cake out of the wheat must 

needs tarry the grinding. 

Troilus & C '. , Act i. Sc. 1. 

655. He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes. 

Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

656. He wants nothing of a god but eternity, and a 

heaven to throne in. 

Coriotanus . Act v. Sc. 4. 

657. He was a fool, 
For he would needs be virtuous. 

Henry VI I I., Act ii. Sc. 2. 



46 Mottoes and Aphorisms from SJuikspcarc. 

658. He was a man, take him for all in all, 
I shall not look upon his like again. 

Hamlet . .Act i. Sc. 2. 

659. He was a wise fellow, that, being bid to ask 

what he would of the king, desired he might 
know none of his secrets. 

Pericles . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

660. He was, indeed, the glass 
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. 

2 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

661. He was skilful enough to have lived still, if know- 

ledge could be set up against mortality. 

AWs Well. . Act i. Sc. 1. 

662. He was the mark and glass, copy and book 
That fashioned others. 2 Henry iv, Act ii. Sc. 3. 

663. He watered his new plants with dews of flattery. 

Coriolanzis . Act v. Sc. 4. 

664. He will never follow anything 
That other men begin. JuL c <esar . Act ii. Sc. i. 

665. He would have all as merry 

As first good company, good wine, good welcome, 
Can make good people. HenryVIH., Act i. Sc. 4 . 

666. Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

667. High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

668. His apparel is built upon his back, and the 

whole frame stands upon pins. 

2 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

669. His bark is stoutly timber'd, and his pilot 
Of very expert and approv'd allowance. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

670. His heart is free from fraud, as Heaven from 

earth. TzcoG.ofV, Act ii. Sc. 7. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 47 

671. His life was gentle, and the elements 

So mixed in him that Nature might stand up 
And say to all the world, This was a man. 

Jul. Cczsar . Act v. Sc. 5. 

672. His nature is too noble for the world, 

He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, 
Or Jove for his power to thunder. 

Coriolanus . Act iii. Sc. r. 

673. His picture 

I will send far and near, that all the kingdom 
May have due note of him. 

Lear . . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

674. His present, and your pains, we thank you for. 

Henry V. . Act i. Sc. 2. 

675. His silver hairs 
Will purchase us a good opinion. 

Jul. CcEsar . Act ii. Sc. r. 

676. His speech was like a tangled chain ; nothing 

impaired, but all disordered. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act v. Sc. 1. 

677. His worst fault is that he is given to prayer. 

M. W. of IV., Act i. Sc. 4. 

678. His worth is warrant for his welcome hither. 

Two G. of V., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

679. His years but young, but his experience old. 

TivoG.ofV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

680. Holdfast is the only dog. Henry V. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

681. Holy men in their death have good inspirations. 

Mer. ofVen., Act i. Sc. 2. 

682. Holy water in a dry house is better than rain- 

water out o' door. Lcar ... Act iii. Sc. 2. 

683. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. 

TiuoG. of V., Act i. Sc. 1. 

684. Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief. 

LovcsL. L., Act v. Sc. 2. 



48 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 

685. Honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a 

sauce to sugar. A% Y . L. 1. . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

686. Honesty's a fool, 
And loses that it works for. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

687. Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends, 
I' the war do grow together. 

Coriolanus . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

688. Honour is the subject of my story. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

689. Hopdance cries in Tom's belly for two white 

herrings. Lear ... Act iii. Sc 4 . 

690. Hope is a lover's staff. TwoG.o/v., Act iii. Sc. i. 

691. Horatio, or do I forget myself. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

692. Hourly joys be still upon you ! 

Tempest . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

693. How beauteous mankind is ! 

Tempest . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

694. How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness 

through another man's eyes. 

A. Y. L.I. . Act v. Sc. 2. 

695. How bloodily the sun begins to peer 
Above yon busky hill ! the day looks pale 

At his distemperature. , Henry iv., Act v. Sc. i. 

696. How brooks your grace the air 
After late tossing on the breaking seas ? 

Richard II., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

697. How far that little candle throws his beams! 
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 

Mcr. o/Ven., Act v. Sc. 1. 

698. How green you are, and fresh in this old world ! 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

699. How hard it is for women to keep counsel! 

Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspearc. 49 

700. How high a pitch his resolution soars ! 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. i. 

701. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester. 

2 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 5. 

702. How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow, 
If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show. 

Sonnet 93. 

703. How many fond fools serve mad jealousy ! 

Comedy of E., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

704. How mighty then you are, oh ! hear me tell. 

A Lover s Complaint. 

705. How much better it is to weep at joy, than to 

. joy at weeping. Much Ado. . Act i. Sc. 1. 

706. How now? who's mare's dead ? what's the mat- 

ter • 2 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

707. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds 
Makes deeds ill done. King j ohn . Act iv . Sc . 2; 

708. How oft when men are at the point of death 
Have they been merry ! R om .&> Jul, Act v. Sc. 3. 

709. How poor an instrument 

May do a noble deed. Ant.&cieo., Act v. Sc. 2. 

710. How poor are they that have not patience. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

711. How quickly nature falls into revolt, 
When gold becomes her object. 

2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

712. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 
To have a thankless child ! 

Lear . . . Act i. Sc. 4. 

7 1 3. How silver sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, 
Like softest music to attending ears. 

Rom.&Jul., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

714. How sour sweet music is 
When time is broke, and no proportion kept. 

Richard II., Act v. Sc. 5. 



50 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

715. How still the evening- is, 
As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony. 

Much Ado. . Act ii. So. 3. 

7 1 6. How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank. 

Mer. ofVeu., Act v. Sc. 1. 

717. How use doth breed a habit in a man ! 

Two G. of V., Act v. Sc. 4. 

718. Ay me ! how weak a thing 

The heart of woman is ! y nL Casar , Act iL Sc> 4> 

719. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable 
Seem to me all the uses of this world ! 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

720. How well this honest mirth becomes their 

labour ! Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

721. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to 

night ! j Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 1. 

722. I am a child to chiding. otiuiio . . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

723. I am afear'd, 
Being in night, all this is but a dream. 

Rom.&>Jul., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

724. I am a feather for each wind that blows. 

Win. Talc. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

725. I am a man 
More sinn'd against than sinning. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

726. I am asham'd, that women are so simple 

To offer war, where they should kneel for peace. 

T. of the S., Act v. Sc. 2. 

727. I am a soldier, and unapt to weep 
Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness. 

1 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 3. 

728. I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. 

2 Henry I V., Act i. Sc. 2. 

729. I am as true as truth's simplicity, 
And simpler than the infancy of truth. 

Troii7ts&>C, Act iii. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shaksjbeare. 5 1 

730. I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. 

1 He?iry IV., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

731. I am beholden to you for your sweet music ; 

my ears were never better fed with such 
delightful pleasing harmony. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 5. 

732. I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confm'd, bound in 
To saucy doubts and fears. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

733. I am come to survey the Tower this day. 

1 Henry VI. , Act i. Sc. 3. 

734. I am constant as the northern star, 

Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality 
There is no fellow in the firmament. 

Jul. CcBsar . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

735. I am even poor in thanks ; but I thank you. 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

736. I am glad that my weak words 

Have struck but thus much show of fire from 

BrUtUS. y uL Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

737. I am glad you thus continue your resolve 
To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy. 

T. of the S., Act i. Sc. 1. 

738. I am in blood 
Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, 
Returning were as tedious as go o'er. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

739. I am known to be a humourous patrician, and 

one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a 
drop of allaying Tyber in't. 

Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

740. I am misantJiropos, and hate mankind. 

Tim. ofAth. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

741. I am most joyful, madam, such good dreams 
Possess your fancy. JIenry VIILfAct iv . Sc . 2. 

742. I am never merry when I hear sweet music. 

Mer.of Ven., Act v. Sc. i. 



52 Mottoes arid Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

743. I am no orator, as Brutus is. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

744. I am not bound to that all slaves are free to, 
Utter my thoughts ! othello ; , Act UL Sc> 3 

745. I am not in the giving vein to-day. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

746. I am not in the roll of common men. 

1 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

747. I am not mad ; too well, too well I feel 
The different plague of each calamity. 

King- John . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

748. I am not of that feather, to shake off 
My friend when he must need me. 

Tim. of Ath. Act i. Sc. 1. 

749. I am not only witty myself, but the cause that 

Wit is in Other men. 2 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 2. 

750. I am one that w r ould rather go with sir priest 

than sir knight : I care not who knows so 
much of my mettle. Twelfth N. . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

751. I am reckless what 

I do, to spite the world. Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

752. I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, 
Too far in years to be a pupil now. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 3. 

753. I am weaker than a woman's tear, 
Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance. 

Troihcs & C. Act i. Sc. 1. 

754. I am wrapped in dismal thinkings. 

Ail's Well. . Act v. Sc. 3. 

755. I begin 
To doubt the equivocation of the fiend 

Who lies like truth. Macbeth . . Act v. Sc. 5- 

756. Gle?id. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. 
Hotspur. Why, so can I ; or so can any man ; 
But will they come, if you do call for them ? 

1 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Ap hoi' isms from Shakspeare. 53 

757. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be 

done, than be one of the twenty to follow 
my own teaching. Mer% o/Ven . }Act j. Sc . 2. 

758. I can get no remedy against this consumption of 

the purse. z Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 2. 

759. I can give the loser leave to chide. 

2 Henry VI, Act iii. Sc. 1. 

760. I can express no kinder sign of love, 

Than this kind kiss. 2 Henry vi.. Act i. Sc. 1. 

761. I can no other answer make, but, thanks, 

And thanks. Twelfth N. . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

762. I cannot but remember such things were, 
That were most precious to me. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

763. I cannot, by the progress of the stars, 
Give guess how near to day. 

J11I. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

764. I cannot weep ; for all my body's moisture 
Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning 

heart. 3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

765. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a 

weazel sucks eggs. Am Yt Lm 7j Act n Sc . 5 . 

766. I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count 

myself a king of infinite space. 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

767. I could be merry now. King John .Act iii. Sc. 3. 

768. I could be well content 
To entertain the lag-end of my life 

With quiet hours. s Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 1. 

769. I could have better spar'd a better man ! 

1 Iloiry I V., Act v. Sc. 4. 

770. I count it but time lost to hear such a foolish 

song. a. v. I. /., Act. v. Sc. 2. 



54 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcarc. 

771. I crave our composition may be written 

And seal'd between us. A*t.&Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 6. 

772. I dare do all that may become a man ; 
Who dares do more, is none. 

Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 7. 

773. I'd have him poison'd with a pot of ale. 

1 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 3. 

774. I do love 

My country's good, with a respect more tender, 
More holy and profound, than mine own life. 

Coriolanus . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

775. I do not desire you to please me, I do desire 

you to sing. A , Y . L. /., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

776. I do not like M but yet," it does allay 

The good precedence : fie upon " but yet:" 
11 But yet " is as a goaler to bring forth 
Some monstrous malefactor. 

Ant.&Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

yyy. I do not know that Englishman alive 
With whom my soul is any jot at odds. 

Rickd. HI., Act ii. Sc. x. 

J 7 8. I do not know what poetical is ? Is it honest 
in deed and word ? Is it a true thing ? 

A. Y. L. I., Act. iii. Sc. 3. 

779. I do not love to see wretchedness o'ercharged, 
And duty in his service perishing. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act v. Sc. 1. 

780. I do suspect thee very grievously. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

781. I do think him as concave as a covered goblet, 

or a worm-eaten nut. a. y. l. I., Act iii. Sc. 4. 

782. I do think it is their husbands' faults 

If wives do fall. Othello . Act. iv. Sc. 3. 

78^. I dreamt a dream to-night. 

' J Rom.&»7*l., Act i. Sc. 4 - 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 55 

784. I dreamt, my lady came and found me dead ; 
Strange dream ! that gives a dead man leave 

tO think ! Rom.&Jul, Act v. Sc. i. 

785. If all the year were playing holidays, 
To sport would be as tedious as to work. 

1 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 2. 

786. If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb 

ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monu- 
ment than the bells ring, and the widow 

weeps. Much Ado. . Act v. Sc. 2. 

787. If Caesar can hide the sun from us with a 

blanket, or put the moon in his pocket, we 
will pay him tribute for light. 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 1 . 

788. If charnel-houses, and our graves, must send 
Those that we bury, back, our monuments 
Shall be the maws of kites. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

789. If consequence do but approve my dream, 

My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

790. If ever thou didst hold me in thy heart, 
Absent thee from felicity awhile, 

And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, 
To tell my story. Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

791. If God prevent it not ; I purpose so. 

Richard II., Act v. Sc. 2. 

792. If he be sick 

With joy, he will recover without physic. 

2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

793. If he could burn us all into one coal 

We have deserv'd it. Coriolanu* . Act iv. Sc. 6. 

794. If he would incline to the people, there was 

never a worthier man. Cortolanm . Act il 



i 



56 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare, 

795. If I could add a lie unto a fault, 

I would deny it. ^ Mer.o/Ve*., Act v. Sc. 1. 

796. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge 

and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a noble- 
man Should do. i Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 4. 

797. If I had a thousand sons, the first principle I 

would teach them should be, to forswear 
thin potations, and to addict themselves to 

Sack. o. Henry II'., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

798. If I lose mine honour 

I lose myself. Ant.&Cleo., Act iii. Sc. 4. 

799. If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, 
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. 

Rom.&JuL, Act v. Sc. 1. 

800. If I must die, 

I will encounter darkness as a bride, 

And hug it in mine arms. m.MM. . Act iii. Sc. i. 

801. If I once stir, 

Or do but lift this arm, the best of you 

Shall sink in my rebuke, othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

802. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, 
I can again thy former light restore. 

Othello . .Act v. Sc. 2. 

803. If I should tell thee o'er this thy day's work, 
ThouTt not believe thy deeds. 

Coriolanus . Act i. Sc. 8. 

804. If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well 
It were done quickly. Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 7 . 

805. If it were now to die, 
'Twere now to be most happy. 

Othello. . Act ii. Sc. t. 

806. If I were as tedious as a king I could find it in 

my heart to bestow it all of your worship. 

Much Ado. . Act iii. Sc. 5. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 57 

807. If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall 

SUnlCe. Passionate Pilgrim, 3. 

808. If music be the food of love, play on. 

Tzvelfth N., Act i. Sc. 1. 

809. If my suspect be false, forgive me, God ; 
For judgment only doth belong to thee ! 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

810. If our virtues 

Do not go forth of us, 'twere all alike 

As if we had them not. M.forM. . Act i. Sc. i. 

811. If sack and sugar be a fault, heaven help the 

Wicked ! x Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

812. If she be false, 0, then heaven mocks itself! 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

813. If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, 
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. 

Othello . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

814. If the great gods be just, they shall assist 
The deeds of justest men. 

Ant.&Cleo., Act ii. Sc. r. 

815. If the rascal have not given me medicines to 

make me love him, I'll be hanged ! 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

816. If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss 

him, as they use to do the players in the 
theatre, I am no true man. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

817. If thou be'st death, I'll give thee England's 

treasure, 
Enough to purchase such another island, 
So thou wilt let me live, and feel no pain. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

818. If thou'lt see a thing to talk on when thou art 

dead and rotten, come hither ! 

Win. Tul,' . Act iii. Sc. 3. 



58 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

819. If to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean 

kine are to be loved. x Henry 1 v., Act Li. Sc. 4. 

820. If to do were as easy as to know what were 

good to do, chapels had been churches, and 
poor men's cottages princes' palaces. 

Mir. of Vol, Act i. Sc. 2. 

821. If we do meet again, why, we shall smile ; 
If not, why then this parting was well made. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act v. Sc. 1. 

822. If you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek. 

Henry V. . Act v. Sc. 1. 

823. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

82 4. If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, 
That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I 
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli : 

Alone I did it ! Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 4. 

825. If you refuse your aid 

In this so never-needed help, yet do not 
Upbraid us with our distress. 

Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. X. 

826. I 'gin to be a- weary of the sun. 

Macbeth . . Act v. Sc. 5. 

827. Ignorance is the curse of God. 
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. 

2 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 7. 

828. I had as lief have a reed that will do me no 

service, as a partizan I could not heave. 

A?it.&>Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

829. I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 
Than such a Roman. y uL C cesar . Act iv. Sc 3. 

830. I had rather be a kitten and ccy mew, 

Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. 

1 Henry I V., Act iii. Sc. I. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspearc. 59 

831. I had rather be a toad, 
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, 
Than keep a corner in the thing- I love, 

For others' uses. Qtkello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

832. I had rather be their servant in my way, 
Than sway with them in theirs. 

Coriolamcs . Act ii. Sc. r. 

833. I had rather have a fool to make me merry than 

experience to make me sad. 

A. Y. L. /., Act iv. Sc. i. 

834. I had rather have 
Such men my friends, than enemies. 

Jul. Ca>sar . Act v. Sc. 4. 

835. I have a gammon of bacon, and two razes of 

ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing 

CrOSS. j Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

836. I have a kind soul that would give you thanks, 
And knows not how to do it, but with tears. 

King John .Act v. Sc. 7. 

837. I have an eye, uncle: I can see a church by 

daylight. Much Ado . m Act n s c . 1. 

838. I have a reasonable good ear for music ; let us 

have the tongs and the bones. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

839. I have a stoop of wine. otheUo . . Ac t ii. Sc. 3, 

840. I have bought 
Golden opinions from all sorts of people. 

Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 7. 

841. I have but little gold of late, brave Timon. 

Tim. of Ath. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

842. I have deserv'd 

All tongues to talk their bitterest. 

Win. Tale . Act iii. Sc. 2 

843. I have dogs, my lord, 

Will rouse the proudest panther in the chase 

Titus And. . Act ii. Sc. 2. 



60 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 

S44. I have done a thousand dreadful things, 

As willingly as one would kill a fly. 

Titus And., Act v. Sc. 1. 

845. I have dreamed 

Of bloody turbulence, and this whole night 
Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of 
slaughter. Troilus & C, Act 5. Sc. 3. 

846. I have heard it said, the fittest time to corrupt 

a man's wife is when she's fallen out with 

her husband. Coriolanus . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

847. I have heard of some kind of men that put 

quarrels purposely on others, to taste their 
valour. Twelfth N. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

S48. I have heard the Ptolemies' pyramids are very 
goodly things. Ant.&C/eo., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

849. I have him already tempering between my 

finger and my thumb, and shortly will I 

Seal With him. 2 Henry 1 7., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

850. I haveliv'd long enough ; my way of life 
Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf. 

Macbeth . . Act v. Sc. 3. 

851. I have more flesh than another man; and 

therefore more frailty. 

1 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

852. I have no mind of feasting forth to-night. 

Mer.oJ Ven., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

853. I have not that alacrity of spirit, 

Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. 

Richd. Ill ., Act v. Sc. 3. 

854. I have scanted all 
Wherein I should your great deserts repay. 

Sonnet 117. 



Afottoes a?id Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 61 

855. I have seen the day 

That I have worn a visor ; and could tell 
A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear. 

Rom.&Jnl, Act i. Sc. 5. 

856. I have set my life upon a cast, 
And I will stand the hazard of the die. 

Richd, III., Act v. Sc. 4. 

857. I have supp'd full with horrors. 

Macbeth . . Act v. Sc. 5. 

858. I have that within which passeth show. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

859. I have very poor and unhappy brains for drink- 

ing ; I could well wish courtesy would invent 
some other custom of entertainment. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

860. I have words 

That should be howl'd out in the desert air, 
Where hearing should not latch them. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

861. I hear, yet say not much, but think the more. 

3 Henry IV. , Act iv. Sc. 1. 

862. I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality 

that it is but a shadow's shadow. 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

863. I hold him but a fool that will endanger 
His body for a girl that loves him not. 

TwoG.qfV., Act v. Sc. 4. 

864. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; 
A stage where every man must play a part. 

Mer. of Ven. Act i. Sc. 1. 

865. I honour'd him, I lov'd him ; and will weep 
My date of life out, for his sweet life's loss. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

866. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, 
Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows. 

Mirf.X. Dr., Act ii. SC 2. 



62 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shahspcare. 

86 7. I know no cause 

Why I should welcome such a guest as grief. 

Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

868. I know thou hadst rather 
Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf 
Than flatter him in a bower. 

Coriolanrts . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

869. I like your silence ; it the more shows off 
Your wonder. iriHm TaU m Act v Sc 2 

870. I'll be a candle-holder, and look on. 

Rom.&Jul. t Act i. Sc. 4. 

871. I'll be as patient as a gentle stream. 

Two G.o/V. Act ii. Sc. 6. 

872. Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

S73. Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. 

Com. of E., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

874. I'll drink no more than will do me good, for 

no man's pleasure. * Henry I v., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

875. I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak 
Nothing but Mortimer, and give it him, 
To keep his anger still in motion. 

1 Henry II'., Act i. Sc. 3. 

876. I'll look no more, 

Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight 
Topple down headlong. Lear ... Act iv. Sc. 6. 

877. I'll make assurance double sure, 
And take a bond of fate. Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

878. I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again, but in 

honest, civil, godly company. 

M.W.ofW., Act i. Sc. 1. 

879. I'll note you in my book of memory. 

1 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

880. I'll not march through Coventry with them ; 

that's flat. ! Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Skakspeare. 6 



j 



88 1. I'll play the orator as well as Nestor. 

3 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

882. I'll put a girdle round about the earth in forty 

minutes. Mid. N. Dr., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

883. I'll sauce her with bitter words. 

A. Y. L. I., Act iii. Sc. 5. 

884. I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound ! 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

885. I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath ; 
Who shuns not to break one, will sure crack 

both. Pericles . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

886. Ill Will never Said Well. Henry V. . Act iii. Sc. 7. 

887. I love long life better than figs. 

Ant.&Clco., Act i. Sc. 2. 

888. I love no chiders, sir. r< ofthe Smt Act ;. Sc . 2 . 

889. I love not many words. A n> s wdL . Actll ;. Sc . 6. 

890. I love thee in such sort 

That thou being mine, mine is thy good report. 

Sonnet 36. 

891. I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of 

Rome, I came, saw, and overcame. 

2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

892. Immortal gods, I crave no pelf; 
I pray for no man, but myself. 

Tim. o/AtJi., Act i. Sc. 2. 

893. Imperial Caesar, dead, and turned to clay, 
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

894. Impute his words 
To wayward sickness and to age. 

Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

895. I must be cruel, only to be kind. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

896. I must eat my dinner. Tempest . . Act L 



64 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcarc. 



897. I must not have you henceforth question me 
Whither I go, nor reason whereabout. 

1 Henry IV. , Act ii. Sc. 3. 

898. In a false quarrel there is no true valour. 

Much Ado. . Act v. Sc. 1. 

899. In Cambria are we born, and gentlemen : 
Further to boast were neither true nor modest, 
Unless I add we are honest. 

Cy vibe line . Act v. Sc. 5. 

900. Incapable of more, replete with you. 

Son) iet 113. 

901. Indeed a sheep doth very often stray, 
An if the shepherd be awhile away. 

TivoG. of V., Act i. Sc. 1. 

902. Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the 

loss of a beard. Much Ado ^ % Act Hi Sc# 2> 

903. I never did repent for doing good, 

Nor shall not now. Mer.o/Ven., Act iii. Sc. 4. 

904. I never knew so younga body with so old a head. 

Mer.o/Ven., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

905. I never knew yet but rebuke and check was the 

reward Of Valour. 2 Henry i v., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

906. In framing artists, art hath thus decreed, 
To make some good, but others to exceed. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

907. Ingratitude is monstrous. Coriolanus . Act it Sc. y 

908. Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend ; 
More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child, 
Than the sea-monster ! Lear t . m Act ; Sc ^ 

909. In my sense, 'tis happiness to die ! 

Othello . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

910. In nature there's no blemish but the mind ; 
None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind. 

Twelfth N. . Act iii. Sc. 4. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms front Shakspeare. 65 

911. In peace there's nothing" so becomes a man 
As modest stillness and humility. 

Henry V. . Act iii. Sc. I. 

912. Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on 

instinct. 1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

913. In such a case as mine, a man may strain cour- 

tly* R01H.& Jul., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

914. In such a time as this, it is not meet 

That every nice offence should bear his com- 
mit- Jul. Ccesar . Activ. Sc. 3. 

915. In such business 

Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant 
More learned than the ears. 

Coriolanus . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

916. In the fatness of these pursy times 
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

917* In the modesty of fearful duty 

I read as much, as from the rattling tongue 
Of saucy and audacious eloquence. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act v. Sc. 1. 

918. In this earthly world, to do harm 
Is sometimes laudable ; to do good, sometime 
Accounted dangerous folly. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

919. I once did hold it, as our statists do, 

A baseness to write fair. Hawlet % % Act v> Sc> ^ 

920. I pardon him, as heaven shall pardon me. 

Richard II., Act v. Sc. 3. 

92 1. I pause for a reply. j uL C(esar % Act i:i Sc 2> 

922. I pray thee, understand a plain man in his plain 

meaning. Mer ^ ofVen ^ Act iIi# S(X 5 

923. I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes 

With the memorials and the things of fame 
That do renown this city. Twelfth H%% Act ii{ Sc % 



66 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shaksfieare. 

924. I promise you, my heart is very jocund 
In the remembrance of so fair a dream. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

925. I saw her coral lips to move, 
And with her breath she did perfume the air. 

T. of the S., Act LS&I. 

926. I saw Othello's visage in his mind. 

Othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

927. I see a strange confusion in thine eye. 

2 Henry IV. , Act i. Sc. 1. 

928. I see a woman may be made a fool, 
If she had not a spirit to resist. 

T. of the S., Act in. Sc 2. 

929. I seek not to wax great by others' waning, 
Or gather wealth I care not with what envy 

2 Henry VI., Activ. Sc. 10 

930. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips. 

Henry V., Cho. to Act in. 

931. I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. 

A. Y.L.I.. Act i. Sc. 2. 

932. I shall despair. There is no creature loves me. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

933. I shall fall 

Like a bright exhalation in the evening, 
And no man see me more. 

Henry VIII., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

934. I smell it. 

Upon my life it will do wondrous well. 

1 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 3. 

935. Is not marriage honourable in a beggar ? 

Much Ado. . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

936. Is not the king's name forty thousand names ? 

Richard II., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

937. I speak of Africa, and golden joys. 

2 Henry 1 V., Act v. Sc. 3. 

938. Is there any cause in nature that makes these 

hard hearts ? Lear . . .Act iii. Sc. 6. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shaksfieare. 67 

939. I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, 
Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. 

Henry VI I I., Act ii. Sc 3. 

940. Is woe the cure for woe ? RaJ>e of Lucre ce. 

941. I talk of dreams, 
Which are the children of an idle brain. 

Rom.&yul., Act i. Sc. 4. 

942. I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. a. 

943. It comes o'er my memory 

As doth the raven o'er the infectious house ; 

Boding tO all. Othello . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

944. It easeth some, though none it ever cured, 
To think their dolours others have endured. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

94$. I tell thee, churlish priest, 

A minist'ring angel shall my sister be 
When thou liest howling. Hamlet . . Act v. Sc 1. 

946. It fits us then to be as provident 

As fear may teach us. Henry v% . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

947. It gives me wonder great as my content, 
To see you here before me. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

948. I think my cousin meant well. 

M. W.ofW., Act i. Sc. 1. 

949. I think there's ne'er a man in Christendom, 
Can lesser hide his love or hate than he. 

Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 4. 

950. I think this is the most villainous house in all 

London road for fleas : I am stung like a 

tench. ! Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

951. It is a custom 

More honour'd in the breach than the observance. 

Hamlet , . Act i. Sc. 4. 



68 Mottoes and ApJiorisms from Shakspeare. 

952. It is a damned and a bloody work; 
The graceless action of a heavy hand. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

953. It is a good divine that follows his own instruc- 

tions. MeTm c/Ven., Act i. Sc. 2 

954. It is a greater grief, 

To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury. 

Sonnets, 40. 

955. It is a kind of good deed to say well ; 
And yet words are no deeds. 

Henry VIII., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

956. It is a purpos'd thing, and grows by plot, 
To curb the will of the nobility. 

Coriolanus . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

957. It is a reeling world, indeed, my lord, 
And I believe will never stand upright. 

Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

958. It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper. 

Othello . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

959. It is great sin to swear unto a sin, 
But greater sin, to keep a sinful oath. 

2 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. i. 

960. It is not enough to speak, but to speak true. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act v. Sc. 1. 

961. It is not, nor it cannot come to good. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

962. It is Othello's pleasure that every man put him- 

self into triumph, some to dance, some to 
make bonfires, each man to sport and revels. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

963. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, 
And that craves wary walking. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

964. It is the first time that ever I heard breaking of 

ribs was sport for ladies. 

A. V. L. I., Act i. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 69 


965. 


It is the mind that makes the body rich. 




T. of the S., Act iv. Sc. 3. 


966. 


It oft falls out, 




To have what we would have, we speak not 




what we mean. Mm forM% % Act a Sc> 4 . 


967. 


It was alway yet the trick of our English na- 




tion, if they have a good thing, to make it 




tOO Common. 2 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 2. 


968. 


It was excess of wine that set him on. 




Henry V. . Act ii. Sc. 2. 


969. 


It was never merry world in England since gen- 




tlemen came up. 2 Henry yj mt Ac t iv. Sc. 2. 


970. 


It was the lark, the herald of the morn. 




Rom. &> Jul., Act iii. Sc. 5. 


971. 


It was the nightingale, and not the lark, 




That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear. 




Rom. &> Jul., Act iii. Sc. 5. 


972. 


It were all one 




That I should love a bright, particular star, 




And think to wed it ; he is so above me ! 




All's Well. . Act i. Sc. 1. 


973- 


It would be argument for a week, laughter for a 




month, and a good jest for ever. 




1 Henry IV. , Act ii. Sc. 2. 


974- 


I was not born under a rhyming planet. 




Much Ado. . Act v. Sc. 2. 


975- 


I was not made a horse 




And yet I bear a burden like an ass. 




Richard II, Act v. Sc. 5. 


976. 


I will be correspondent to command, 




And do my spiriting gently. 




Tempest . . Act i. Sc. 2. 


977. 


I will be master of what is mine own. 




T. 0/ the S., Act iii. Sc. 2. 



70 Mottoes and Aphorisms fro??i Shakspeare. 

978. I will be very kind, and liberal 

To mine own children in good bringing-up. 

T. of the S. t Act i Sc. z. 

979. I will converse with iron-witted fools 
And unrespective boys : none are for me 
That look into me with considerate eyes. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc 2. 

980. I will despair, and be at enmity 
With cozening hope ; he is a flatterer. 

Richard II. , Act ii. Sc. 2. 

981. I will go get a leaf of brass, 
And with a gad of steel will write these words. 

Titus And., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

982. I will imitate the honorable Romans in brevity. 

2 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

983. I will instruct my sorrows to be proud, 

For grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

984. I will lay 

A plot shall show us all a merry day. 

Richard II., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

985. I will mount myself 
Upon a courser, whose delightful steps 
Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

986. I will not change my horse with any that treads 

but on four pasterns. When I bestride him 
I soar, I am a hawk ; he trots the air ; the 
earth sings when he touches it. 

Henry V. . Act iii. Sc. 7. 

987. I will not praise, that purpose not to sell. 

Sonnet ax. 

988. I will rob Tellus of her weed, 

To strew thy green with flowers ; the yellows, blues, 
The purple violets, and marigolds, 
Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave. 

Pericles . . Act iv. Sc. z. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms fro7n Shakspeare. 71 



989. I will see what physic the tavern affords. 

1 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. i. 

990. I wish'd myself a man, 
Or that we women had men's privilege 

Of speaking first. Troilus&C, Act iii. Sc. 2. 

991. I wish your enterprise to-day may thrive. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. i. 

992. I wish your horses swift and sure of foot. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. i. 

993. I wonder men dare trust themselves with men. 

Tim. of A th., Act i. Sc. 2. 

994. I would not lose the dog for twenty pound. 

T. of the S., Induction. 

995. I would not spend another such a night, 
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days. 

Richd. III., Act i. Sc. 4. 

996. I would this music would come. 

Cymbeline . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

997. I, your glass, 
Will modestly discover to yourself 

That of yourself which you yet know not of. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

998. Jesters do ott prove prophets. 

Lear . . . Act v. Sc. 3. 

999. Jove sometime went disguis'd, and why not I ? 

2 Henry VI. , Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1000. Joy, gentle friends ! joy, and fresh days of love 
Accompany your hearts ! 

Mid. N. Dr., Act v. Sc. 1. 

iooi. Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries, 

With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me 

hence. x Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

1002. Justice always whirls in equal measure. 

Love's L. L., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1003. Justice is feasting while the widow weeps. 

Rape of Lucrcce. 



72 Mottoes a?id Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1004. Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good 

student from his book, and it is wonderful. 

M.IV.ofJV., Act Hi Sc. 1. 

1005. Keep thy word justly. Lear , , . Act iii. Sc. 4 . 

1006. Kent, in the Commentaries Caesar writ, 
Is term'd the civil'st place of all this isle. 

2 Henry VI, Act iv. Sc. 7. 

1007. Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, 
Shall win my love. r . of the s ., Act iv. Sc. i. 

1008. Kings are earth's gods. p er ides . . Act i. Sc. i. 

1009. Kings, like gods, should govern everything. 

Rape of Lucre ce. 

1 010. Kings' misdeeds cannot be hid in clay. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

ion. Knavery's plain face is never seen till used. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1 01 2. Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold 
Would tempt unto a close exploit of death ? 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1 01 3. Last scene of all, 

That ends this strange, eventful history, 
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; 
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. 

A. Y.L. I . Act ii. Sc. 7. 

1014. Lay her i' the earth ; 
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh 

May violets spring. Hamlet , , Act v> Sc- t 

1015. Less noise ! less noise ! 2 Henry I v., Act iv. Sc. 4 . 

1016. Let ^Esop fable in a winter's night, 

His currish riddles sort not with this place. 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 5. 

1017. Let all the number of the stars give light 

To thy fair way ! Ant.&cieo., Act iii. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 73 

1 01 8. Let a Welsh correction teach you a good Eng- 

lish condition. Henry V. . Act v. Sc. i. 

1 01 9. Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart 
That doth not wish you joy ! 

Tempest . . Act v. Sc. i. 

1020. Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse ! 

Othello . . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1 02 1. Let Hercules himself do what he may, 

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. x. 

1022. Let him be regarded 

As the most noble corse that ever herald 

Did follow to his urn. Coriolanus . Act v. Sc 5. 

1023. Let him look to his bond ! 

Mer.o/Ven.y Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1024. Let him that is a true-born gentleman, 
From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. 

1 Henry VI. , Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1025. Let him that is no coward, nor no flatterer, 
Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me. 

1 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1026. Let it work ; 

For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer 
Hoist with his own petard. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1027. Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife. 

1 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc 1. 

1028. Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle, 
That hast so longwalk'd hand in hand with time. 

Troilus&C, Act iv. Sc. 5. 

1029. Let me embrace these sour adversities, 
For wise men say it is the wisest course. 

3 Henry VI, Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1030. Let me have men about me that are fat ; 
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. 

Jul. Cwsar . Act i. Sc. 2. 



74 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1 03 1. Let me have thy voice in my behalf. 

M.W.ofW., Act i. Sc. 4. 

1032. Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil. 

All's Well . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1033. Let me not to the marriage of true minds 
Admit impediment. Sonnet Il6> 

1034. Let men take heed of their company. 

2 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1035. Let me wipe off this honourable dew, 
That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks. 

King John . Act v. Sc. 2. 

1036. Let music sound while he doth make his choice. 

Mer. o/Ven., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1037. Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, 
But still remember what the Lord hath done. 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1038. Let no man abide this deed 

But We the doers. y uL C a>sar . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1039. Let not my love be called idolatry, 
Nor my beloved as an idol show. 

Sonnet 105. 

1040. Let not the creaking of shoes, nor the rustling 

of silks, betray thy poor heart to woman. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1 04 1. Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter 

My SOber house. Mer.ofVen., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

1042. Let not the world see fear, and sad distrust 
Govern the motion of a kingly eye. 

King John . Act v. Sc. x. 

1043. Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

1044. Let pale-fac'd fear keep with the mean-born man 
And find no harbour in a royal heart. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms front Shaksfieare. 75 

1045. Let Rome in Tiber melt ! and the wide arch 
Of the rang'd empire fall ! 

Ant.&Cleo., Act I Sc. x. 

1046. Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, 
Not hew him as a carcase fit for hounds. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. i. 

1047. Let's not confound the time with conference 

harsh. Ant.&Cleo., Act i. Sc. i. 

1048. Let specialties therefore be drawn between us, 
That covenants may be kept on either hand. 

T. of the S., Act ii. Sc. i. 

1049. Let's take the instant by the forward top. 

All's Well. . Act v. Sc. 3. 

1050. Let's teach ourselves that honourable step, 
Not to outsport discretion. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

105 1. Let still the woman take 

An elder than herself. Twelfth N. . Act ii. Sc. 4 . 

1052. Let the end try the man. 

2 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1053. Let the galled jade wince. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1054. Let the gods so speed me as I love 

The name of honour more than I fear death. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1055. Let the great gods 

That keep this awful pudder o'er our heads 
Find out their enemies now ! 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1056. Let them be whipped through every market- 

town. 2 Henry IK, Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1057. Let them not live to taste this land's increase, 
That would with treason wound this fair land's 

peace. RiefuL in., Act v. Sc. 4- 



76 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1058. Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death, 
Vagabond exile, flaying, pent to linger 

But with a grain a day, I would not buy 
Their mercy at the price of one fair word. 

Coriolanus . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1059. Let them want nothing that my house affords. 

T. of the S., Induction 2. 

1060. Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends ; 
Unless some dull and favourable hand 

Will whisper music to my weary spirit. 

2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1 06 1. Let this pernicious hour 
Stand aye accursed in the calendar. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1062. Let those that play your clowns speak no more 

than is set down for them. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1063. Let thy song be love. Troilus&C, Act iii. Sc. i. 

1064. Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1065. Let us still continue peace and love. 

1 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1066. Let US tO billiards. Ant.&Cleo., Act ii. Sc. s. 

1067. Liberty ! Freedom ! Tyranny is dead ! 

Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1068. Life is a shuttle. m. w.o/iv., Act v. Sc. i. 

1069. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale 
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1070. Life's but a walking shadow ; a poor player, 
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, 
And then is heard no more. 

Macbeth . . Act v. Sc 5. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 77 

1 07 1. Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks 

draw deep. Troiius&c, Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1072. Light thickens, and the crow 
Makes wing to the rooky wood. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1073. Like a school broke up, 

Each hurries towards his home and sporting- 
place. 2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1074. Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves, 
That could not live asunder day or night. 

1 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1075. Like to the time o' the year between the extremes 
Of hot and cold : he was nor sad nor merry. 

Ant.&Cleo., Act i. Sc. 5. 

1076. Like youthful steers unyok'd, they took their 

course 
East, west, north, south. 

2 Henry IV., Act iv, Sc. 2. 

1077. Lions make leopards tame. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1078. Little shall I grace my cause 

In speaking for myself. otheUo . . Ac t i. Sc. 3. 

1079. Live a coward in thine own esteem ; 
Letting I dare not wait upon I would, 
Like the poor cat i' the adage. 

Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 7. 

1080. Loan oft loses both itself and friend, 

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 

Hamlet. . Act i. Sc. 3. 

108 1. Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. 

Sonnet 35. 

1082 Long sitting to determine poor men's causes 
Hath made me full of sickness and diseases. 

2 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 7. 



78 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 


1083. 


Look, as the waves make towards the pebbled 

shore, 
So do our minutes hasten to their end. 

Sonnet 60. 


1084. 


Look, Hector, how the sun begins to set ; 
How ugly night comes breathing at his heels. 

Troilus&C, Act v. Sc. 9. 


1085. 


Look here, upon this picture, and on this ; 
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 


1086. 


Looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth. 

Venus and Adonis. 


1087. 


Look, love, what envious streaks 
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east 

Rom.&Jid., Act iii. Sc. 5. 


1088. 


Look, the unfolding star calls up the shepherd. 

M. forM. . Act iv. Sc. 2. 


1089. 


Look to the baked meats, good Angelica. 

Rom.&Jul., Act iv. Sc 4. 


1090. 


Look, what is done cannot be now amended. 

Richd. III., Activ. Sc. 4. 


1091. 


Look, when he fawns, he bites ; and when he 

bites 
His venom tooth will rankle to the death. 

Richd. III., Act i. Sc. 3. 


1092. 


Lord Angelo is precise. M.forM. . Act L Sc 4 . 


1093. 


Lord Angelo is severe. M.forM. . Act ii. Sc. i. 


1094. 


Lord, lord, how the world is given to lying ! 

1 He?iry IV., Act v. Sc 4. 


1095. 


Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage 
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit. 

Sonnet 26. 


1096. 


Lord, what fools these mortals be ! 

Mid. X. Dr., Act iii. Sc 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 79 

1097. Louder, the music there ! 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 7. 

1098. Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1099. Love all, trust a few, 

Do wrong to none. AU > S WeUm . Ac t i. Sc. l 

1 100. Love and Fortune be my gods, my guide ! 

Rape of Lucrece. 

1 1 o I . Love and meekness, lords, 

Become a churchman better than ambition. 

Henry 'VII r I. , Act v. Sc. 2. 

1 102. Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. 

Venus and Adonis. 

1 103. Love for thy love, and hand for hand I give. 

1 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1 1 04. Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from 

their books. Rotn.&JuL, Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1 105. Love hath twenty pair of eyes. 

Two G.ofV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1 106. Love is a familiar; love is a devil: there is no 

evil angel but love. Love's L. L. t Act i. Sc. 2. 

I IO7. Love is all truth. Venus and Adonis. 

1 108. Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs 

Rom. &>JuL, Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 109. Love is a spirit all compact of fire, 

Not gross to sink, but light and will aspire. 

Venus and Adonis. 
I I IO. Love is blind. Two G. of V, Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1111. Love is wise in folly. Vinut and Adorns. 

1 1 12. Love like a shadow flies, when substance love 

pursues. m. U r . oflV. t Act ii. Sc. 2. 



80 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1 1 13. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the 

mind, 
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 1 14. Lovers break not hours, 
Unless it be to come before their time. 

Two G. of V., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 1 1 5. Lovers' hours are long, though seeming short. 

Venus and Adonis. 

1 1 16. Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain. 

Venus and Adonis. 

1 1 17. Love's heralds should be thoughts, 
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's 

beams. Rom.&JuL, Act ii. Sc. s. 

1 1 18. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and 

cheeks 
Within his bending sickle's compass come. 

Sonnet 116. 
I I 19. Love SUrfeitS not. Venus and Adonis. 

1 120. Love that well which thou must leave ere long. 

Sonnet 73. 

1 121. Love-thoughts lie rich, when canopied with 

bowers. Twelfth N. . Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 122. Love thrives not in the heart that shadows 

dreadeth. R a j>e of Lucrece. 

1 123. Love 

Will creep in service where it cannot go. 

Two G.ofV.y Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1 124. Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1125. Maids are May when they are maids, but the 

sky changes when they are wives. 

A. Y. L.I. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 81 

1 126. Make all the money thou canst. 

Othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1 127. Make battery to our ears with the loud music. 

Ant. &>Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

1 128. Make but my name thy love, and love that 

still, 
And then thou lov'st me, for my name is Will. 

Sonnet 126. 

1 129. Make his books thine eyes, 

Where all those pleasures live that art can 

comprehend. Passionate Pilgrim, 3. 

1 130. Make not a city feast of it, to let the meat cool 

ere we can agree upon the first place : Sit, 

sit. Tim. o/Ath., Act iii. Sc. 6. 

1 131. Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it 

will out at the casement. 

A.Y.L. I., Activ. Sc. 1. 

1 132. Make the meat be beloved more than the man 

that gives it. Tim% /Ath., Act iii. Sc. 6. 

1 133. Make use of time ; let not advantage slip. 

Vemis and Adonis. 

1 134. Many a man knows no end of his goods. 

A.Y.L. I., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1 135. Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's 

undoing. AiVs We n , Act & Sc 4> 

1 136. Many men that stumble at the threshold 
Are well foretold that danger lurks within. 

3 Ih'7iry VI., Act iv. Sc. 7. 

1 137. Many will swoon when they do look on blood. 

A. Y. L. /., Activ. Sc. 2. 

1 1 38. Mark, how one string, sweet husband to an- 
other, 
Strikes each in each, by mutual ordering. 



82 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 

I I 39. Mark the music. Mer.ofVen., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 140. Marriage is a matter of more worth 
That to be dealt in by attorneyship. 

t Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 5. 

1 141. Masters, play here ; I will content your pains. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1 142. Matrons flung gloves, 

Ladies and maids their scarfs and handker- 
chiefs, 
Upon him as he pass'd. Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. i. 

1 143. May his pernicious soul 

Rot half a grain a day ! othello . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

1 144. May never glorious sun reflex his beams 
Upon the country where you make abode ! 

1 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 4. 

1 145. May that soldier a mere recreant prove 
That means not, hath not, nor is not in love. 

Troi'us&C, Act i. Sc. 3. 

1 146. May you a better feast never behold. 

Tim.ofAth., Act iii. Sc. 6. 

1 147. Meagre were his looks, 
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. 

Rom. &JuL, Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 148. Men are as the time is. Lear . . .Act v. Sc. 3. 

1 149. Men are men : the best sometimes forget. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

I I 50. Men at some time are masters of their fates. 

J 2d. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1 151. Men do their broken weapons rather use 
Than their bare hands. othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1 152. Men have died from time to time, and worms 

have eaten them ; but not for love. 

A. V. L. I. . Activ. Sc 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from SJiakspcarc. &$ 
1 1 53. Men have marble, women waxen minds. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

1154. Men in rage strike those that wish them best. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Men, like butterflies, 

1 1 55. Show not their mealy wings but to the summer. 

Troihis&>C, Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1 1 56. Men must endure 

Their going hence, even as their coming hither. 

Lear . . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

1 1 57. Men must learn now with pity to dispense, 
For policy sits above conscience. 

Tim.ofAth., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 158. Men of his way should be most liberal ; 
They are set here for examples. 

Henry VIII., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1 1 59. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues 
We write in water. Henry via., Activ. Sc. 2. 

1 160. Men's eyes were made to look. 

Rom.&Jul., Act iii. Sc. i. 

1 161. Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

1 162. Men should be what they seem. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1 163. Men shut their doors against a setting sun. 

Tim. (fAth., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1 1 64. Men's vows are women's traitors! 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1 165. Men that hazard all 

Do it in hope of fair advantages. 

Mcr.of Ven., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

1 166. Men there were that did his picture get. 

A Lover s Complaint. 



84 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1 167. Merciful powers, 

Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that 

nature 
Gives way to in repose ! Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. x. 

1 168. Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. 

Rom.&JuL, Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1 1 69. Methinks, a father 

Is, at the nuptial of his son, a guest 
That best becomes the table. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1 1 70. Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note. 

Mid.N. Dr., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1 17 1. Mine enemy's dog, 

Though he had bit me, should have stood 

that night 
Against my fire. Lear ... Act iv. Sc. 7 . 

1 172. Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate ; 
Life every man holds dear ; but the dear man 
Holds honour far more precious dear than life. 

Troilus&C, Act v. Sc. 3. 

1 173. Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. 

Loves L. L., Act v. Sc. 2. 

1 1 74. Mischief, thou art afoot, 
Take thou what course thou wilt ! 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 175. Misery acquaints a man with strange bed- 

fellows. Tempest . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1 176. Misery is trodden on by many, 
And being low never relieved by any. 

Venus and Adonis. 

1 1 77. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead ; 

excessive grief the enemy to the living. 

Alls Well. . Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 178. Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. 

M. IV. of IV, Act v. Sc. 5. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 8 = 



1 1 79. More are men's ends mark'd than their lives 

before. Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 1 

1 180. More is thy due than more than all can pay. 

Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 4. 

1 181. More matter, with less art. 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1 182. More needs she the divine than the physician. 

Macbeth . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 1 83. More of your conversation would infect my 

Dram. Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1 184. More water glideth by the mill 
Than wots the miller of. 

Titus And. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1 1 8 5 . Most heavenly music ; 

It nips me into listening - . 

Pericles . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 186. Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds. 

2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1 1 87. Mountains may be removed with earthquakes. 

A. Y. L. I. . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 1 88. Mount, mount, my soul ! thy seat is up on high ; 
Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here 

t0 die. Richard II, Act v. Sc. 5. 

1 189. Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. 

Two G. of V., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1 190. Much of grief shows still some want of wit 

Roni.&JuL, Act iii. Sc. 5. 

1 191. Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee. 

Rape of Litcrece. 

1 192. Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak 
With most miraculous organ. 

Ilawlct . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1 193. Music, ho ! music; such as charmeth sleep. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act iv. Sc. 1. 



S6 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1 194- Music oft hath such a charm, 

To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. 

M. for M. . Act iv. Sc. i. 

1 195. My actions are as noble as my thoughts. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 5. 

1 196. My blessing go with thee. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1 197. My books and instruments shall be my com- 

ply- T. of the S., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 198. My brain, more busy than the labouring spider, 
Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1 1 99. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, 
And every tongue brings in a several tale. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

1200. My crown is call'd content ; 
A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. 

3 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1 201. My father's brother ; but no more like my father 
Than I to Hercules. Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1202. My gracious silence, hail ! 

Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. i. 

1203. My guilt be on my head, and there an end. 

Richard II, Act v. Sc. i. 

1204. My heart is heavy, and mine age is weak. 

All's Well. . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1205. My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus 

Seals it. Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1206. My library was dukedom large enough. 

Tempest . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1207. My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, 
I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; 
I do beseech you send for some of them. 

Richd. Ill, Act iii. Sc. 4. 



Mottoes and Aphoi'isms from Shakspeare. 87 



1208. My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind 

That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. I. 

1209. My love with words and errors still she feeds; 
But edifies another with her deeds. 

Troilus&C, Act v. Sc. 3. 

1 2 10. My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred. 

Troiliis&C, Act iii. Sc. 3. 

121 1. My mother, 

Who has a charter to extol her blood, 
When she does praise me grieves me. 

Coriolamts . Act i. Sc. 8. 

1212. My parts, my title, and my perfect soul 
Shall manifest me rightly. 

Othello . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1 2 1 3. My poverty, but not my will, consents. 

Rom.&Jul, Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 2 14. My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep 

time, 
And makes as healthful music. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

12 1 5. My salad days ! 

When I was green in judgment, — cold inblood ! 

Aut.&Cleo., Act i. Sc. 5. 

1 2 16. My soul is full of discord and dismay. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1 2 1 7. My tables, my tables, — meet it is I set it down. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 5. 

12 18. My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel. 

1 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 5. 

12 19. My tongue will tell the anger of my heart ; 
Or else my heart, concealing it, will break. 

T. of the S., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1220. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. 

Mer. of I '>//., A 1 i- - 

1 22 1. My wife! my wife ! what wile ? I have no 

wi * c • Othello . .Act v. Sc. 2. 



88 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1222. My years are young, 
And fitter is my study and my books 

Than wanton dalliance. x Henry VI., Act v. Sc i. 

1223. Naming thy name blesses an ill report. 

So?inet 95. 

1224. Nature and fortune joined to make thee great. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1225. Nature disclaims in thee ; a tailor made thee. 

Lear . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1226. Nature hath framed strange fellows in her 

time. Mer.ofVen., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1227. Nature's tears are reason's merriment. 

Rom.&Jnl., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1228. Nature with a beauteous wall 
Doth oft close in pollution. 

Twelfth N. . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1229. Nay, but make haste ; the better foot before. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1230. Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes, 
Contempt and beggary hang upon thy back. 

Ro7n.&>Jul., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 23 1. Neither a borrower nor a lender be. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1232. New customs, 
Though they be never so ridiculous, 

Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are followed. 

HenryVIIL, Act i. Sc. 3. 

1233. Never alone 

Did the king sigh, but with a general groan. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1234. Never anything can be amiss 
When simpleness and duty tender it. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1235. Never-resting Time leads Summer on 
To hideous Winter. Sonnet 5. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 89 

1236. Never shame to hear 
What you have nobly done. 

Coriolamis . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1237. Never to speak of this that you have seen, 
Swear, by my sword. Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 5. 

1238. Nice customs curt'sy to great kings. 

Henry V. . Act v. Sc. 2. 

1239. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day 
Stands tip-toe on the misty mountain's tops. 

Rom. &> Jul., Act iii. Sc. 5. 

1240. Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, 
And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 24 1. Nimble thought can jump both sea and land. 

Sonnet 44. 

1242. No beast so fierce but knows some touch of 

P^y. Richd. III., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1243. No black envy shall mark my grave. 

Henry VI I I., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1244. No boasting like a fool ; 

This deed I'll do before this purpose cool. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1245. No day without a deed to crown it. 

HenryVIII., Act v. Sc. 4. 

1246. No fisher but the ungrown fry forbears. 

Venus and Adonis. 

1247. No legacy is so rich as honesty. 

Alls Well. . Act iii. Sc. 5. 

1248. No man inveighs against the withered flower, 
But chides rough winter that the flower has 

killed. Rape of L ucrece. 

1249. No man means evil but the devil. 

M.W.ofW., Act v. Sc. 2. 

1250. No man's too good to serve his prince. 

2 Henry I V., Act iii. Sc. 2. 



90 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspearc. 

1251. No marble, nor the gilded monuments 

Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme. 

Sound 55. 

1252. Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall 

burn 
The living record of your memory. 

So7uiet 55. 

1253. No might nor greatness in mortality 

Can censure 'scape. M.forM. .Actiii. Sc a, 

1254. No more be grieved at that which thou hast 

done. Sonnet 35. 

1255. No more of this unprofitable chat. 

1 He)iry IV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1256. None can cure their harms by wailing them. 

Richd. III., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1257. No perfection is so absolute 
That some impurity doth not pollute. 

Rape of Lticrece. 

1258. No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize ; 
Revenge should have no bounds. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 7. 

1259. No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. 

T. of the S., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1260. Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor 
More than thy fame, and envy. 

Coriolanus . Act i. Sc. S. 

1 26 1. Not all the water in the rough rude sea 
Can wash the balm from an anointed king. 

Richard II., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1262. Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat. 

T. of the S., Act v. Sc. 2. 

1263. Nothing can affection's course controul. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

1264. Nothing can seem foul to those that win. 

1 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 91 

1265. Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. 

Tim. o/Ath., Act iii. Sc. 5 

1266. Nothing extenuate, 
Nor set down aught in malice. 

Othello . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

1267. Nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make de- 

ience. Sonnet 12. 

1268. Nothing will come of nothing. 

Lear . . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

1269. Nought I did in hate, but all in honour. 

Othello . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

1270. Nought's had, all's spent, 
When our desire is got without content. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 27 1. Nought shall make us rue, 
If England to itself do rest but true. 

Kuigjohn . Act v. Sc. 7. 

1272. No villainous bounty yet hath pass'd my heart ; 
Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given. 

Tim.qfAth.f Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1273. No vizor doth become black villany 
So well as soft and tender flattery. 

Pericles . .Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1274. Now all the blessings 
Of a glad father compass thee about ! 

Tempest . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

1275. Now by the ground that I am banish'd from 
Well could I curse away a winter's night. 

2 Henry VI. , Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1276. Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss 
I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip 
Hath virgin'd it e'er since. 

Coriolaniis . Act v. Sc. 3. 

1277. Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet 

prince, 

And Mights of angels sing thee to thy rest ! 

' J I, unlet . . Act V. • 



92 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1278. Now does my project gather to a head. 

Tempest . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

1279. Now, God be praised ! that to believing souls 
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair ! 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1280. Now good digestion wait on appetite, 

And health on both. Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1 28 1. Now happy he, whose cloak and cincture can 
Hold out this tempest. King j ohn , Act iv . Sc- 3# 

1282. Now in the names of all the gods at once, 
Upon what meat doth this our Cassar feed 
That he is grown so great ? 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1283. Now is the sun upon the highmost hill 

Of this day's journey. Rom.&jui., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

1284. Now, Lord be thanked for thy good amends. 

T. of the S., Induction. 

1285. Now, my masters, happy man be his dole. 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1286. Now o'er the one half world 
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse 
The curtain'd sleep. Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1287. No word like pardon for kings' mouths so 

meet. Richard II., Act v. Sc. 3. 

1288. Now put your shields before your hearts, and 

fight 
With hearts more proof than shields. 

Coriolanus . Act i. Sc. 4. 

1289. Now, quiet soul, depart when heaven please. 

1 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1290. Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard. 

Henry V. . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1 29 1. Now sit we close about this taper here, 
And call in question our necessities. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iv. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 93 

1292. Now stand you on the top of happy hours. 

Sonnet 16. 

1293. Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy. 

Love's L. L., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1294. Now the lord lighten thee! thou art a great 

fool. 2 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1295. Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow- 

rooted ; 
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the 
garden. 2 Henry VI} Act m Sc> lm 

1296. Now what a thing it is to be an ass ! 

Tittis And. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1297. Oaths are straws, men's faiths are water-cakes. 

Henry V. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1298. O, beauty, 
Till now I never knew thee ! 

Henry VI II., Act i. Sc. 4. 

1299. O, be sick, great greatness, 
And bid thy ceremony give thee cure ! 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc 1. 

1300. Obey thy parents. Lear . , . Ac t iii. Sc. 4 . 

1 30 1. O Conspiracy! 

Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by 

night 
When evils are most free ? 

Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

i 302. O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me ! 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

1303. Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversa- 

tion Ant.&Clco., Act ii. Sc. 6. 

1304. O curse of marriage; 

That we can call these delicate creatures ours 
And not their appetites ! othcUo . , Act m. Sc . 3. 



94 Mottoes and Aphorisms front Shaksfieare. 

1305. O damn'd paper ! 
Black as the ink that's on thee ! 

Cy)nbcli)ie . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 306. O day and night, but this is wondrous strange ! 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 5. 

1307. Of all base passions, fear is most accurs'd. 

1 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 2. 

1308. O, flatter me, for love delights in praises. 

TivoG. of V., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1309. O, flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified ! 

Rom. &> Jul., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1 3 10. Of Nature's gifts thou may'st with lilies boast 
And with the half-blown rose. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

131 1. O foolish youth ! 

Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm 

thee. 2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1312. O for a muse of fire, that would ascend 
The brightest heaven of invention ! 

Henry V. . Chor.toActi. 

131 3. Often, to our comfort, shall we find 
The sharded beetle in a safer hold 
Than is the full-wing'd eagle. 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1 3 14. Oft expectation fails, and most oft there 
Where most it promises. 

All's Well. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

131 5. Oft have I invoked thee for my muse. 

Sonnet 78. 

1 3 16. Of your philosophy you make no use, 
If you give place to accidental evils. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1 31 7. O, gentle Proteus, love's a mighty lord ! 

TiuoG.ofV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 95 

1 31 8. O God, thy arm was here ; 

And not to us, but to thy arm alone 
Ascribe we all. Henry Vm . Act iv> Sc 8> 

1 319. O heaven! that one might read the book of 
fate ; 
And see the revolution of the times. 

2 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. i. 

1320. O heavens ! is't possible, a young maid's wits 
Should be as mortal as an old man's life ? 

Ha?nlet . . Act iv. Sc. 5. 

1 32 1. O heaven, that such companions thou'dst un- 

fold, 
And put in every honest hand a whip, 
To lash the rascals naked through the world ! 



Othello 



. Act iv. Sc. 2. 



O, he's as tedious 



As is a tired horse, a railing wife; 
Worse than a smoky house. 

1 Henry IK, Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1323. O ! he sits high in all the people's hearts. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1324. Oh ! from what power hast thou this powerful 



might ? 



Sonnet 180. 



1325. Oh! hard-believing love! how strange it 

seems, 
Not to believe, and yet too credulous. 

Venus and Adonis. 

1326. Oh ! how much more doth beauty beauteous 

seem ; 
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! 

Sonnet 54. 

1327. O, how this spring of love; resembleth 
The uncertain glory of an April day. 

(7. 0/ V., Act i. S 



g6 Mottoes and Aphorisins front Shakspeare. 



1328. Oh! how wretched 

Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors. 

Henry VI I I., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1329. Oh! melancholy, 

Who ever yet could sound thy bottom ? 

Cymbeline . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1330. Oh! mischief! thou art swift 
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men. 

Rom.&>JuL, Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 33 1. Oh ! Opportunity! thy guilt is great ! 

RaJ>e of Lucre ce. 

1332. Oh ! that men's ears should be 
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery. 

Tim. o/Ath., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1333. Oh ! that men should put an enemy into their 

mouths, to steal away their brains. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1334. Oh ! the difference of man and man. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1335. Oh! thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou 

hast no name to be known by, let us call 
thee devil ! 0theUo p . Act a Sc ; 3 . 

1336. Oh! 'tis excellent 

To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous 
To use it like a giant. M.forM. . Act ii. Sc 2. 

1337. Oh ! what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! 

Mer. o/Ven., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1338. Oh ! what authority and show of truth 
Can cunning sin cover itself withal. 

Much Ado. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1339. Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, 
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus. 

Richard II, Act i. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 97 

1340. Oh! you gods, 

Why do you make us love your goodly gifts, 
And snatch them straight away ? 

Pericles . . Act iii. Sc. i. 

1 34 1. O, if thou teach me to believe this sorrow, 
Teach thou this sorrow how to make me die. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. i. 

i 342. O, Jephthah, judge of Israel, — what a trea- 
sure hadst thou ! Havilet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1343. O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, 
And men have lost their reason ! 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1344. Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice, 
To change true rules for odd inventions. 

T. of the S., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1345. Old fools are babes again. 

Lear . . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1 346. Old men forget. Henry Vm . Act iv . Sc . 3. 

1347. O, let the heavens 

Give him defence against the elements ! 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. i. 

1348. O, let us yet be merciful. 

Henry V. . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1 349. O Lord, that lends me life, 

Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness ! 

2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. i. 

1350. O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies 

In herbs, plants, stones, and their true quali- 
ties. Rom.&Jul. t Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1 35 1. Omittance is no quittance. 

A. Y. L. I., Act iii. Sc. 5. 

1352. O, momentary grace of mortal men, 

Which we more hunt for than the grace 
Of God ! Richd. ///., Act iii. Sc. 4 . 

H 



98 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1353. O monstrous! but one half-penny-worth of 

bread to this intolerable deal of sack ! 

1 Henry IV. , Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1354. One doth not know 

How much an ill word may empoison liking. 

Mitch Ado. . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1355. One drop of blood drawn from thy country's 

bosom, 
Should grieve thee more than streams of 

foreign gore. x Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1356. One feast, one house, one mutual happiness. 

Two G. of V., Act v. Sc. 4. 

1357. O negligence, 

Fit for a fool tO fall by ! HenryVIII., Act iii. Sc.2. 

1358. O, negligent and heedless discipline ! 

1 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1359. One may smile and smile, and be a villain. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 5. 

1360. One sin, I know, another does provoke. 

Pericles . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 36 1. One sorrow never comes but brings an heir. 

Pericles . . Act i. Sc. 4. 

1362. One that lov'd not wisely, but too well. 

Othello . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

1363. One touch of nature makes the whole world 

kin. Troilns&C, Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1364. One turf shall serve as pillow for us both ; 
One heart, one bed, two bosoms, and one troth. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1365. One whose subdu'd eyes, 
Albeit unused to the melting mood, 
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees 
Their medicinable gum. othello . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

1366. One woe doth tread upon another's heels. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 7. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 99 

1367. On fair ground I could beat forty of them. 

Coriolamis . Act iii. Sc. i. 

1368. O *ioble lord, bethink thee of thy birth. 

T. of the S., Induction. 

1369. One that converses more with the buttock of 

the night than with the forehead of the 

morning. Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. i. 

1370. O, our lives' sweetness ! 

That we the pain of death would hourly die, 
Rather than die at once ! Lear . . . Ac t v. Sc. 3. 

1 37 1. O peers of England, shameful is this league! 

2 Henry VI. , Act i. Sc. i. 

1372. Open, locks, whoever knocks. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. i. 

1 373. Open your ears : for which of you will stop 
The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks ? 

2 Henry IV., Induction. 

1374. Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan 
The outward habit by the inward man. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1 375. O place and greatness, millions of false eyes 
Are stuck upon thee ! Mt /orM . . Act iv. Sc. r. 

1376. O powerful love ! that, in some respects, 

makes a beast a man ; in some other, a man 
a beast. Mm w m fW. t Act v. Sc. 5. 

1 377. O, reason not the need ; our basest beggars 
Are in the poorest thing superfluous. 

Lear . . . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1378. Or is the adder better than the eel, 
Because his painted skin contents the eye ? 

T. of the S., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

l 379- O Romeo, Romeo ! wherefore art thou Romeo? 

Kom.&Jul., Act ii. Sc. 2. 



i oo Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 

1380. Orpheus' lute was strung- with poets' sinews. 

Two G. of V., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1 38 1. O ! shame ! where is thy blush ? 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1382. O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her ! 
And be her sense but as a monument, 

Thus in a chapel lying ! C ymbeUne . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1 383* O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou ! 

Twelfth N. . Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 384. O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, 
That monthly changes in her circled orb, 
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. 

Rom.&Jul., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1385. O, that a man might know 
The end of this day's business ere it come ! 

Jul. Cccsar . Act v. Sc. 1. 

1386. O, that estates, degrees, and offices, 

Were not deriv'd corruptly ! and that clear 

honour 
Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer ! 

Mer.ofVen., Act ii. Sc. 9. 

1387. O, that right should thus overcome might ! 

2 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 4. 

1388. O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ; 
One is too poor, too weak for my revenue ! 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1389. O, the days that we have seen ! 

2 Henry IV. , Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 390. O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us ! 

Tint. ofAth. y Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1 391. Othello's occupation's gone ! 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1392. O, the mad days that I have spent ! 

2 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. i o i 

1393. O, these men, these men ! 

Othello . . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1394. O, this learning ! what a thing it is ! 

T. of the S. r Act i. Sc. 2. 

1395. O thoughts of men accurst! 
Past and to come, seem best ; things present, 

WOrst. 2 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1396. O thou well skill'd in curses, stay a while, 
And teach me how to curse mine enemies. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1397. O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approv'd, 
When women cannot love, where they're 

belov'd. TivoG.ofV., Act v. Sc. 4. 

1398. O, too much folly is it, well I wot, 

To hazard all our lives in one small boat. 

1 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 6. 

1399. O, true apothecary ; 

Thy drugs are quick. Rom.&jtd., Act v. Sc. 3 . 

1400. O, two such silver currents, when they join, 
Do glorify the banks that bound them in. 

King JoJvi . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1401. Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills 

are gardeners. Othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1402. Our children's children 
Shall see this, and bless heaven. 

Henry VII 1. 1 Act v. Sc. 4. 

1403. Our content is our best having. 

IlcnryVIII., Act ii. Sc 3. 

1404. Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow. 

M. for M. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1405. Our country manners give our betters way. 

King John .Act L Sc. z. 

1406. Our course will seem too bloody, 

To cut the head off, and then hack the limbs. 
Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 



102 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

14°7- Our doubts are traitors, 

And make us lose the good we oft might win, 
By fearing to attempt. M .?arM. . Act i. Sc. 5. 

1408. Our foster-nurse of nature is repose. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1409. Our own precedent passions do instruct us 
What levity's in youth. Tim ^ ofAtK Act L Sc< lm 

1 410. Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky moun- 

tams - 2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

141 1. Our peace will, like a broken limb united, 
Grow stronger for the breaking. 

2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

141 2. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes 
From whence 'tis nourished. 

Tivi.ofAth., Act i. Sc. 1. 

141 3. Our praises are our wages. You may ride us 
With one soft kiss, a thousand furlongs, ere 
With spur we heat an acre. 

Win. Tale . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1414. Our stomachs 
Will make what's homely, savoury. 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 6. 

141 5. Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our 

Own. Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

141 6. Ourvirtues would be proud if our faultswhipped 

them not ; and our crimes would despair if 
they were not cherished by our virtues. 

Alls Well. . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1 4 1 7. Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, 

Salety. iJ/cn?yIV., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

141 8. O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful, 
In the contempt and anger of his lip ! 

Twelfth X. . Act iii. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 103 

141 9. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! 

Jtrt. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1420. O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1 42 1. O, what a world is this, when what is comely 
Envenoms him that bears it ! 

A. V. L. I., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1422. O, what a world of vile, ill-favour'd faults, 
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a 

Y ear J M. W. of IV., Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1423. O, what learning is ! Rom.&juL, Act iii. Sc. 3 . 

1424. O, what men dare do! what men may do! 

what men hourly do ! not knowing what 

they do ! Much Ado. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1425. O, what portents are these ? 

Some heavy business hath my lord in hand. 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 3 

1426. O, where is faith ? O, where is loyalty ? 
If it be banish'd from the frosty head. 

2 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1427. O, who can give an oath ? where is a book ? 

Love's L. L., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1428. O world, how apt the poor are to be proud. 

Twelfth N. . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1429. O, ye gods, 
Render me worthy of this noble wife ! 

J21I. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1430. Painting is welcome. 
The painting is almost the natural man. 

Tim.ofAth., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 43 1. Palmers' chat makes short their pilgrimage. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

1432. Pardon what I have spoke : 
For 'tis a studied, not a present thought, 

By duty ruminated. Ant.&cico., Act ii. Sc. 2. 



104 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1433. Parting strikes poor lovers dumb. 

TwoG. of V. y Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1434. Peace and prosperity ! M.forM. . Act i. Sc. 5. 

1435. Peace, good Doll ! do not speak like a death's 

head. 1 Henry I V., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1436. Peace puts forth her olive everywhere. 

2 Henry I V., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1437. Perdition catch my soul 

But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not 
Chaos is come again. Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1438. Perseverance 

Keeps honour bright. To have done, is to hang 
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail 
In monumental mockery. 

Troilus&C, Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1439. Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts. 

Henry V. . Chor.toActi. 

1440. Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their 

Pillage. 2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 44 1. Pitchers have ears. Richd . in., Act ii. Sc. 4 - 

1442. Pity is the virtue of the law, 
And none but tyrants use it cruelly. 

Tim.ofAth., Act iii. Sc. 5. 

1443. Plate sin with gold, 

And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : 
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 6. 

1444. Play the maid's part; still answer nay, and 

take it. Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 7. 

1445. Pleasure and action make the hour seem short. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1446. Plenty and peace breeds cowards. 

Cymbelifie . Act iii. Sc. 6. 

1447. Poor and content, is rich, and rich enough. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphoi'isms from Shakspeare. 105 

1448. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, 
Forgets the shows of love to other men. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1449. Poor grooms are sightless night ; kings, glo- 

rious days. Ra p e f Lucrece. 

1450. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, 
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, 
Howshall yourhouseless heads, andunfedsides, 
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend 

you 
From seasons such as these ? 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 4 

1451. Poor Tom's a-cold. Lear, . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1452. Praising what is lost, 
Makes the remembrance dear. 

All's Well. . Act v. Sc. 3. 

1453. Pray now, forget and forgive. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 7. 

1454. Pray you bid 
These unknown friends to us welcome. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1455. Preach some philosophy to make me mad. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1456. Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1457. Present fears 
Are less than horrible imaginings. 

Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1458. Present mirth hath present laughter; 
What's to come is still unsure. 

Twelfth N. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1459. Press not a falling man too far. 

HenryVIII.i Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1460. Pride was Eve's legacy, and cannot be taYn 

from her. TwoG.o/V. % Act iii Sc. 1. 



io6 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1 46 1. Princes are the glass, the school, the book, 
Where subjects eyes do learn, do read, do look. 

Rape of Lticrece. 

1462. Procure me music ready when he wakes, 
To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound. 

T. of the S., Induction. 

1463. Promising opens the eyes of expectation. 

Tim. ofAth., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1464. Proper deformity seems not in the fiend 

So horrid as in woman. Lear i n . Activ. Sc. 2. 

1465. Prosperity's the very bend of love. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1466. Put money in thy purse. otheUo m . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1467. Rancour will OUt. 2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. i. 

1468. Read not my blemishes in the world's report; 
I have not kept my square ; but that to come 
Shall all be done by the rule. 

Ant.&>Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1469. Reason and love keep little company together 

nOW-a-dayS. Mid. N. Dr., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1470. Reform it altogether. Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 47 1. Relenting fool, and shallow changing woman ! 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1472. Remember, I have done thee worthy service ; 
Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings. 

Tempest . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1473. Repent what's past ; avoid what is to come. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1474. Report is changeable. j^ ar . . .Activ. Sc. 7. 

1475. Reputation is oft got without merit, and lost 

without deserving. Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3- 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 107 
1476. Respect and reason wait on wrinkled age. 

Rape of Lticrece. 

14.77. Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 5. 

1478. Rest you merry. Rom.&jtd., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1479. Revenge should have no bounds. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 7. 

1480. Riches, fmeless, is as poor as winter, 
To him that ever fears he shall be poor. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1 48 1. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. 

Hanilet . . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1482. Rich honesty dwells, like a miser, in a poor 

house ; as your pearl in your foul oyster. 

A.Y. L. /., Act. v. Sc. 4. 

1483. Rich preys make rich men thieves. 

Venus and Adonis. 

1484. Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. 

Rom.&Jtd., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1485. Ring, bells, aloud ; burn, bonfires, clear and 

Dri g nt J 2 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 1. 

i486. Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud. 

Sonnet 35. 

1487. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of 

May, 
And summers lease hath all too short a date. 

Sonnet 18. 

1488. Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo. 

2 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1489. Rumour is a pipe 

Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, 

2 I/etirylV., Induction. 

1490. Sacred and sweet, was all I saw in her. 

T. 0/ the S., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1491- Sad hours seem long. Rotn.^JuL, Act i. Sc. 1. 
1492. Sad souls are slain in merry company. 

Rape of Lucrece. 



io8 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 



1493. Safe may'st thou wander, safe return again ! 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 5. 

1494. Salutation and greeting to you all. 

A. V. L. I., Act v. Sc. 4. 

1495. Season your admiration for awhile with an 

attent ear. Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1496. See ! Antony, that revels long o' nights, 

Is notwithstanding up. JuL CcEsar . Act iL Sc . 2. 

1497. See how she leans her cheek upon her hand! 
O, that I were a glove upon that hand, 
That I might touch that cheek ! 

Rom.&rjnl., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1498. See how the morning opes her golden gates, 
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun. 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1499. See if thou canst find out Sneak'snoise ; mistress 

Tear-sheet would fain have some music. 

2 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1500. See, sons, what things you are! 

2 He?iry IV., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1 501. See the players well bestowed : let them be 

well used, for they are the abstract and 
brief chronicle of the time. 

Hamlet . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1502. Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort 
As if he mock'd himself. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1503. Self-harming jealousy! — fye, beat it hence. 

Comedyo/E., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1504. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin 

As self-neglecting. Henry Vm . Ac t ii. Sc. 4. 

1505. Service is no heritage. Alls Well. .Act i. Sc. 3. 

1506. Set not thy sweet heart on proud array. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 109 

1 507. Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, 
And look on death itself ! 

Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1508. Shall I be frighted when a madman stares ? 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1509. Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn ? 

1 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1 5 10. Shall I seem crest-fallen in my father's sight ? 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 1. 

151 1. Shall we dance now the Egyptian bacchanals, 
And celebrate our drink ? 

Ant.&Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

1 5 12. Shall we go see the reliques of this town ? 

Twelfth N. . Act iii. Sc. 3 

1 5 1 3. Shall we wear these glories for a day ? 

Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them ? 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

I 5 14. She bears a duke's revenues on her back. 

2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 3. 

i 5 i 5. She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you 
down, 
And rest your gentle head upon her lap. 

1 He?iry IV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1 5 16. She hath made me four-and-twenty nosegays 
for the shearers : three-man song-men all ; 
but they are most of them means and bases. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1 5 17. She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; 
She is a woman, therefore may be won. 

Titus And. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1 5 18. She is sweeter than perfume itself. 

T. of the S., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1 5 19. She looked yesternight fairer than ever I saw 
her look, or any woman else. 

Troilus&C, Act i. Sc. 1. 



no Mottoes and Aphorisms from SJiakspcare. 

1520. She never told her love, 

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 
Feed on her damask cheek. 

Twelfth N. . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1 52 1. She's a lady 

So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, 
And strokes death to her. 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 5. 

1522. She sat, like Patience on a monument, 
Smiling at grief. Twelfth N. . Act ii. Sc. 4 . 

1523. She's beautiful ; and therefore to be woo'd : 
She is a woman, therefore to be won. 

1 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 3. 

1524. She sings like one immortal, and she dances 
As goddess-like to her admired lays. 

Pericles . Chor. to Act v. 

1525. She speaks, yet she says nothing; What of 

that ? 
Her eye discourses. Rom.&jui, Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1526. She will sing the savageness out of a bear. 

Othello . . Act iv. Sc. i. 

1527. Ships are but boards, sailors but men. 

Mer. ofVen., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1528. Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, 
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a 

morrow. Richard II., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1529. Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp 

Sustaining. R a p e of Lucrece. 

1530. Should all despair 

That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind 
Would hang themselves. 

Win. Tale . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1531. Should we be taking leave 
As long a term as yet we have to live, 
The loathness to depart would grow. 

Cymbeline . Act i. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 1 1 1 

1532. Shut doors after you : Fast bind, fast find ; 
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. 

Mer.ofVen., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

1533. Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, 
Men were deceivers ever. 

Much Ado. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1534. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy ; I were 

but little happy if I could say how much. 

Much Ado. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1535. Silence that dreadful bell, it frights the isle 
From her propriety. 0ikeUo . . Act a Sc> 3> 

1536. Since every Jack became a gentleman, 
There's many a gentle person made a Jack. 

Richd. III., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1537. Since the affairs of men rest still incertain, 
Let's reason with the worst that may befall. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act v. Sc. 1. 

1538. Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with 

your manner of wrenching the true cause 

the false Way. 1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1539. Sir, sir, impatience hath his privilege. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1540. Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table. 

A. Y. L. /., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

1 541. Sit down ; at first 
And last, the hearty welcome. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1542. Slander's mark was ever yet the fair. 

Sonnet 70. 

1 543. Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast. 

Roiu.&JuL, Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1544. Sleep seldom visits sorrow ; when it doth, 

It is a comforter. Tempest . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1 545. Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry 

^ast. Comedy ej '£., Act iii. Sc. 1. 



ii2 Mottoes and Aphorisms from SJiakspcare. 

1546. Small curs are not regarded when they grin ; 
But great men tremble when the lion roars. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1547. Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow 

apace. Richd. III., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1548. Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires 

abide. Rape of Lucre ce. 

1549. Small showers last long, but sudden storms 

are short. Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1550. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

i 55 i. Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite 

The man that mocks at it and sets it light. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1 552. So are you to my thoughts as food to life. 

Sonnet 74. 

1553. So cares and joys abound as seasons fleet. 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1 5 54. Society is no comfort 

To One not Sociable. Cymbeline . Activ. Sc. 1. 

1555. Society (saith the text) is the happiness of life. 

Love's L. L. , Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1556. So excellent a king ; that was, to this, 
Hyperion to a satyr. Hamlet . . Act i. Sc 2. 

1557. So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf. 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 6. 

1558. Soft stillness, and the night, 
Become the touches of sweet harmony. 

Mcr. of Ven., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1559. So Judas kiss'd his master 

And cried, — all hail ! when as he meant — all 
harm. 3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 6. 

1560. Soldiers should brook as little wrongs as gods. 

Tim.ofAth., Act iii. Sc. 5. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 113 

1 561. Soldiers' stomachs always serve them well. 

1 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1562. So looks the pent-up lion o'er the wretch 
That trembles under his devouring paws. 

3 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1563. So many miseries have craz'd my voice, 
That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1564. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, 

and some have greatness thrust upon them. 

Twelfth N. . Act ii. Sc. 5. 

1565. Some certain dregs of conscience are yet within 

me - Richd. Ill, Act i. Sc. 4. 

1566. Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt. 

Ant.&Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

1567. Some men must love my lady, and some Joan. 

Love's L. L., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1568. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. 

M.forM. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1569. Some satire, keen and critical ; 
Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1570. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes 
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 
The bird of dawning singeth all night long. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 57 1. Some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, 
Millions of mischiefs. JuL C(Bsar , Act iv . Sc . x . 

1572. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 4. 

1573. Some wine, within there, and our viands ! 

Ant.&Cleo., Act iii. Sc. 9. 

1574. So part we sadly in this troublous world, 
To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem. 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 4. 

1575. Sorrow and grief have vanquished all my 

powers. 2 Henry y/ t§ Act ii. Sc. 1. 



ii4 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1576. Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours. 

Richd. III., Act i. Sc. 4. 

1577. Sorrow ends not where it seemeth done. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 2. 

I 578. So sharp are hunger's teeth, that man and wife 
Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life. 

Pericles . . Act i. Sc. 4. 

1579. So soon as the all-cheering sun 
Should, in the farthest east, begin to draw 
The shady curtains from Aurora's bed. 

Ro7)i.&>Jul., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1580. So tedious is this day, 
As is the night before some festival 

To an impatient child, that hath new robes 
And may not wear them. 

Rom^Jul., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 581. So thou be good, slander doth but approve 
Thy worth the greater. Sonnet yo . 

1582. Sound all the lofty instruments of war ! 

1 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 2. 

1583. Sound, drums and trumpets ! 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 7. 

1584. Sound the trumpets, and about our task. 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. I. 

1585. So wise so young, they say, do ne'er live long. 

Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1586. Spare not for COSt. Rom.&Jul. t Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1587. Speak pardon, as 'tis current in our land ; 
The chopping French we do not understand. 

Richard II., Act v. Sc. 3. 

1588. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced 

it to you, trippingly on the tongue. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1589. Springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, 
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul 
Gives the tongue vows. Hamlet . . Act 1 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 115 

1590. Stick to your journal course: the breach of 
custom 

IS breach Of all. Cymbeline . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1 591. Still be kind, 

And eke out our performance with your mind. 

Henry V. . Chor.toAct3. 

1592. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace. 

Henry VIII., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 593. Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments ; 
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1594. Stony limits cannot hold love out. 

Rom.&Jid., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1595. Strike now, or else the iron cools. 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1596. Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. 

Lear . . . Act i. Sc. 4. 

1597. Strong reasons make strange actions. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1598. Study what you most affect. 

T. of the S., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 599. Submission, Dauphin ? 'tis a mere French word ; 
We English warriors wot not what it means. 

1 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 7. 

1600. Such is the breath of kings ! 

Richani II., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1 60 1. Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid 

thunder, 
Such groans of roaring wind and rain, 1 never 
Remember to have heard. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1602. Suffice it that I have maintains my state, 
And sends the poor well pleased from my gate. 

.: Henry I 7., Activ. Sc. 10. 

1603. Suit the action to the word, and the word to 

the action. HamU-t . . Actiii S< 



n6 


Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 


1604. 


Summer and his pleasures wait on thee ! 




Sonnet 97. 


1605. 


Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; 




The thief fears every bush an officer. 




3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 6. 


1606. 


Swear by thy gracious self, 




Which is the god of my idolatry. 




Rom.&>Jul., Act ii. Sc. 2. 


1607. 


Swear me, Kate, like a lady, as thou art, 




A good mouth-filling oath. 




1 Henry IV. , Act iii. Sc. 1. 


1608. 


Swear not Lear. . .Act iii. Sc. 4. 


1609. 


Swear priests, and cowards, and men cautelous. 




Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 


1 6 10. 


Sweet, above thought I love thee. 




lyoilus&C, Act iii. Sc. 1. 


161 1. 


Sweet are the uses of adversity. 




A.Y.L. /., Act ii. Sc. 1. 


1612. 


Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds ; 




Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. 




Sonnet 94. 


1613. 


Sweet fortune's minion and her pride. 




1 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 1. 


1 6 14. 


Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. 




Titus And. . Act i. Sc. 1. 


1615. 


Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine ! 




Two G. of V., Act ii. Sc. 1. 


1616. 


Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the 




bosom 




Of good old Abraham ! Richard II., Act iv. Sc. t. 


1617. 


Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years 




Hath not yet div'd into the world's deceit. 




Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 1. 


161S. 


Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue 




But moody and dull melancholy, 




Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, 




ComedyofE., Act v. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare, 117 

1 61 9. Sweets, grown common, lose their dear delight. 

Sonnet 102. 

1620. Sweets to the sweet ; Farewell ! 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

162 1. Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow ! 

Mid. N". Dr., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1622. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judg- 



ment. 



Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 



1623. Take heed of perjury. 0thello t . Act v< Sc . 2 . 

1624. Take heed of the foul fiend ! 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1625. Take honour from me, and my life is done. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1626. Take physic, pomp ; 
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1627. Talkers are no good doers. 

Richd. Ill, Act i. Sc. 3. 

1628. Talk'st thou to me of ifs ? i?/^^. ///., Act iii. Sc. 4 . 

1629. Teach not thy lip such scorn ; for it was made 
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. 

Richd. III., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1630. Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye. 

Richd. III.+ Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1 63 1. Tell them your feats, whilst they with joyful 

tears 
Wash the congealment from your wounds, 

and kiss 
Thy honour'd gashes whole. 

Ant.&>Cleo., Act iv. Sc. 8. 

1632. Tell truth and shame the devil. 

i Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1633. Thnnks, to men 

Of noble minds, is honorable meed. 

Titus A fid. . Act i. Sc. 1. 



n8 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1634. That book in many eyes doth share the glory, 
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. 

Rom.&Jul., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1635. That every like is not the same, O Caesar, 
The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon ! 

Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1636. That he is mad, 'tis true : 'tis true, 'tis pity ; 
And pity 'tis, 'tis true. Hamlet . . Act {l Sc> 2< 

1637. That in the captain's but a choleric word, 
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. 

M. for M. . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1638. That is not the lark, whose notes do beat 
The vaulty heaven so high above our heads. 

Rom. & Jul., Act iii. Sc. 5. 

1639. That life is better life, past fearing death, 
Than that which lives to fear. 

M. for M. . Act v. Sc. 1 . 

1640. That man i' the world, who shall report he has 
A better wife, let him in nought be trusted. 

HeuryVIII., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1 64 1. That man should be at woman's command, 

and yet no hurt done ! 

All's Well. . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1642. That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, 
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. 

TwoG.ofV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1643. That old and antique song we heard last night. 

Twelfth N. . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1644. That quaffing and drinking will undo you. 

Twelfth N. . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1645. That sport best pleases that doth least know 

how. Loves L. L. y Act v. Sc. 2. 

1646. That use is not forbidden usury, 

Which happies those that pay the willing loan. 

Sofinet 6. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 119 

1647. That we shall die we know ; 'tis but the time 
And drawing days out, that men stand upon. 

Jul. Ccp.sar . Act iii. Sc. i. 

1648. That we would do 
We should do when we would. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 7. 

1649. That which should accompany old age; 

As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends ; 

I must not look tO have. Macbeth . . Act v. Sc. 3. 

1650. That which we call a rose, 
By any other name would smell as sweet. 

Rom. &> Jzd., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

165 1. That which we have we prize not to the worth 
Whiles we enjoy it. Much Ado . . Act iv . Sc . r. 

1652. The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins 
Remorse from power. JuL Casar . Act i;< Sc . r> 

1653. The adder hisses where the sweet birds sing. 

Rape of Liicrece. 

1654. The age is grown so picked, that the toe of 

the peasant comes so near the heel of the 
courtier, he galls his kibe. 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 1. ' 

1655. The aim of all is but to nurse the life 

With honour, wealth, and ease in waning age. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

1656. The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may 

easily untie. TroiZus&C, Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1657. The apparel oft proclaims the man. 

J Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1658. The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and 

ceremony. Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1659. The April's in her eyes ; it is love's spring, 
And these the showers to bring it on. 

Ant&Cleo., Act iii. Sc. 2. 



120 Mottoes and Aphorisms fi-om Shakspeare. 

1660. The art of our necessities is strange, 
And can make vile things precious. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 66 1. The bark peeled from the lofty pine, 
His leaves will wither and his sap decay. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

1662. The bay-trees in our country are all withered; 
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven. 

Richard II, Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1663. The benediction of these covering heavens 
Fall on their heads like dew ! 

Cyvibeline . Act v. Sc. 5. 

1664. The best in this kind are but shadows, and the 

worst are no worse if imagination amend 

them. Mid. N. Dr., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1665. The best ward of mine honour is rewarding 

my dependants. Love's L. L., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1666. The better part of valour is discretion. 

1 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 4. 

1667. The bird of night did sit, 
Even at noon-day, upon the market-place, 
Hooting and shrieking. y uL c <zsar . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1668. The birds chant melody on every bush ; 

The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind, 
And make a checkered shadow on the ground. 

Titus And. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1669. The bird that hath been limed in a bush, 
With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush. 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 6. 

1670. The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. 

All's Well. . Act v. Sc. 3. 

167 1. The blackest sin is cleared with absolution. 

Rape of Lucrece. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 121 

1672. The blessed gods 

Purge all infection from our air whilst you 
Do climate here ! win. Tale . Act v. Sc. 1. 

1673. The blood more stirs 
To rouse a lion than to start a hare. 

1 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1674. The blood of youth burns not with such excess, 
As gravity's revolt to wantonness. 

Love's L. L., Act v. Sc. 2. 

1675. The brain may devise laws for the blood ; but 

a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. 

Mer. of Ven., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1676. The busy day, 

Wak'd by the lark, hath rous'd the ribald 

CrOWS. Troihis&C, Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1677. The camomile, the more it is trodden the faster 

it grows ; yet youth, the more it is wasted, 
the sooner it wears. x Henry /K> Act ;L Sc< 4< 

1678. The canker galls the infants of the spring. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1679. The cardinal is more haughty than the devil. 

1 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1680. The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot, 
But low shrubs wither at the cedar's root. 

Rape of L ucrece. 

1 68 1. The chariest maid is prodigal enough, 
If she unmask her beauty to the moon. 

Ilajiilei . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1682. The children yet unborn 

Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn. 

Richard II., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1683. The citizens have shewn their royal minds 
In celebration of this day, with shows, 
Pageants, and sights of honour. 

Henry VI 1 1., Act iv. Sc. 1. 



122 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1684. The climate's delicate ; the air most sweet ; 
Fertile the isle. Win . Tale . Actiii . Sc T 

1685. The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, 

SWOrd. Hamlet . . Act iii . Sc. 1. 

1686. The current, that with gentle murmur glides, 
Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth 

ra g" e - Two G. of V., Act ii. Sc. 6. 

1687. The day begins to break, and night is fled. 

1 Henry VI. , Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1688. The deeds of Coriolanus 
Should not be utter'd feebly. 

Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1689. The deep of night is crept upon our talk. 

Jul. Ccpsar . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1690. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. 

Mer.ofVe7i., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1 69 1. The devil hath power 
To assume a pleasing shape. 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1692. The dragon-wing of night o'erspreads the 

earth. Troilus&C, Act v. Sc. 9. 

1693. The dulness of the fool is the whetstone of the 

Wits. a. Y. L. /., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1694. The dumb men throng to see him, and the 

blind 

To hear him speak. Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1695. The eagle suffers little birds to sing. 

Titus And. . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1 696. The early village cock 

Hath twice done salutation to the morn. 

Kichd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

1697. The earth has bubbles, as the water has. 

Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 3 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 123 

1698. The elements be kind to thee, and make 
Thy spirits all of comfort : fare thee well ! 

Ant.&Cleo., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1699. The end crowns all, 
And that old common arbitrator, time, 

Will one day end it. Troilus&C, Activ. Sc. 5. 

1700. The evil that men do lives after them, 
The good is oft interred with their bones. 

Jtd. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 70 1. The expectancy and rose of the fair state, 
The glass of fashion and the mould of form, 
The observed of all observers. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1702. The fashion wears out more apparel than the 

man. Much Ado. . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1703. The fingers of the powers above do tune 
The harmony of this peace. 

Cymbeline . Act v. Sc. 5. 

1704. The fires i' the lowest hell fold in the people ! 

Coriolanus . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1705. The first bringer of unwelcome news 

Hath but a losing office. * Henry I V., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1706. The Mighty purpose never is o'ertook 
Unless the deed go with it. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1707. The food that to him now is as luscious as 

locusts shall be to him shortly as bitter as 
coloquintida. otheih . . Act i. Sc. 3 . 

1708. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise 

man knows himself to be a fool. 

A. V. L. I., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1709. The fox barks not when he would steal the 

l am ^- 9 Henry //., A. 1 iii. 



124 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

17 10. The friends thou hast, and their adoption 
tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

I 7 1 1. The general so likes your music, he desires you 
to make no more noise with it. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

17 12. The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare 

speaker. HenryVIII., Act i. Sc. 2. 

17 1 3. The gentleness of all the gods go with thee ! 

Twelfth N. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

17 14. The gentler gamester is the soonest winner, 

Henry V. .Act iii. Sc. 6. 

17 1 5. The gentle sex to weep are often willing. 

Rape of Lucre ce. 

1 7 1 6. The glowworm shows the matin to be near, 
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 5. 

17 1 7. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices, 
Make instruments to scourge us. 

Lear . . . Act v. Sc. 3. 

17 1 8. The gods can have no mortal officer 
More like a god than you. 

Pericles . . Act v. Sc. 3 

1 7 19. The golden tresses of the dead, 
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away, 

To live a second life on second head, 

And beauty's dead fleece made another gay. 

Sonnet 68. 

1720. The good I stand on is my truth and honesty. 

Henry VI II., Act v. Sc. x. 

1 72 1. The Goodwins, I think they call the place ; a 

very dangerous flat and fatal. 

Mer. of Ven. Act iii. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes ci7id Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 125 

1722. The grace of heaven 
Before, behind thee, and on every hand, 
Enwheel thee round ! 0thello , , Act - Sc . I# 

1723. The gravity and stillness of your youth, 

The world hath noted. otheUo . . Act {l Sc . 3< 

1724. The great man down, you mark, his favourite 

nies. Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1725. The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning 

night, 
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of 

light. Rom.&Jul., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1726. The grief that does not speak, 
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it 

break. Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1727. The guilt being great, the fear doth still 

exceed. Rape of Lrccrece. 

1728. The hand of little employment hath the dain- 

tier sense. Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

1729. The hardest knife, ill-used, doth lose his edge. 

Sonnet 95. 

1730. The heart hath treble wrong, 
When it is barred the aidance of the tongue. 

Venus and Adonis. 

1 7 3 1 . The hearts of old gave hands, 

But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1732. The heavens forbid 

But that our loves and comforts should in- 
crease, 
Even as our days do grow ! 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1733. The heavens give safety to your purposes ! 

M. for M. . Act i. Sc. 1. 



26 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1734. The heavens with that we have in hand are 

angry. Win. Tale . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1735. The herbs that have on them cold clew o' the 

night, 
Are strewings fitt'st for graves. 

Cymbeline . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1736. The hind that would be mated by the lion 
Must die for love. AlVs WdL . Act it Sc . x. 

1737. The honour'd gods 

Keep Rome in safety, and the chairs of justice 
Supplied with worthy men ! 

Coriolan?is . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1738. The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey, 
The fields are fragrant, and the woods are 

g r een. Titus And. . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1739. The ides of March are come. 

Jul. C&sar . Act iii. Sc. 1 

1740. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 74 1. The jewel that we find we stoop and take it. 

M. for M. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1742. The Jove of power make me, most weak, most 

weak, your reconciler ! 

Ant. &^Cleo., Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1743. The king doth keep his revels here to-night. 

Mid.N. Dr., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1744. The king is but a man, as I am. 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1745. The king's council are no good workmen. 

2 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1746. The king's name is a tower of strength, 
Which they upon the adverse faction want. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

1747. The labour we delight in physics pain. 

Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 127 

1748. The last of all the Romans, fare thee well ! 

Jul. Ccesar . Act v. Sc. 3. 

1 749. The lean and slipper'd pantaloon, 
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side. 

A. Y.L.I. . Act ii. Sc. 7. 

1750. The learned pate 
Ducks to the golden fool. 

Tim.o/Ath.j Act iv. Sc 3. 

175 1. The lines are very quaintly writ. 

Two G. of V., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1752. The love of wicked friends converts to fear. 

Richard II. , Act v. Sc. t. 

1753. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, 
Are of imagination all compact. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1754. The man is noble, and his fame folds in 

This Orb O' the earth. Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 5. 

1755. The man I speak of cannot in the world 

Be singly counterpoised. coridUnus . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1756. The man that hath no music in himself, 

Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, 
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. 

Mer.ofl'cu., Act v. Sc. i. 

1757. The man that once did sell the lion's skin 
While the beast lived, was kill'd with hunting 

hhn- Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1758. The means that heaven yields must be embrac'd 
And not neglected. Richard II., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1759. The mellow plum doth fall ; the green sticks 

* 2-S t. Venus a?id A donis 

1760. The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, 
Shall never sagg with doubt, nor shake with 

k ar - Macbeth . . Act v. 



128 Mottoes a?id Aphorisms froj?i Shakspeare. 

1 76 1. The miserable have no other medicine, 

But only hope. M./orM. . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1762. The moon's an arrant thief ; 

And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. 

Tim. o/Ath.. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1763. The moon shines fair, you may away by night. 

1 Henry IV. y Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1764. The Moor is of a free and open nature, 
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so. 

OtJiello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1765. The more fair and crystal is the sky ; 
The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. 

Richard II. , Act i. Sc. 1. 

1766. The morn, in russet mantle clad, 

Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

1767. The most replenished sweet work of nature 
That, from the prime creation, e'er she fram'd ! 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1768. The mouse ne'er shunned the cat, as they did 

budge 
From rascals worse than they ! 

Coriolanus .Act i. Sc. 6. 

1769. The name of Cassius honours this corruption, 
And chastisement doth therefore hide his head. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1770. Then, a soldier ; 

Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard, 
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, 
Seeking the bubble reputation 
Even in the cannon's mouth. 

A. Y. L. I., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

1 77 1. Then call we this the field of Agincourt. 

Ucnry V ' . . Act iv. Sc. 7. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 129 

1772. Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, 
Youth's a stuff will not endure. 

Twelfth N. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1773. The news is very fair and good, my lord. 

Richard II. , Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1774. Then fiery expedition be my wing ; 
Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1775. The night is long that never finds the day. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1776. The night to the owl, and morn to the lark, 

less welcome. Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 6. 

1777. Then let thy love be younger than thyself, 
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. 

Twelfth N., Act ii. Sc 4. 

1778. Then shall our names, 
Familiar in their mouths as household words, 
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1779. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, 
And shining morning face, creeping, like snail, 
Unwillingly to school. Ai Y . Lm Li Act & Sc . 7 . 

1780. Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose, 
With whose sweet smell the air shall be per- 

fum'd. 2 Henry VI, Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 78 1. The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief, 
To him that bears the strong offence's cross. 

Sonnet 34. 

1782. The old bees die ; the young possess their hive. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

1783. The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

1784. The pale-fac'd moon looks bloody on the earth. 

Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1785. The patient dies while the physician sleeps. 

Rape of Lucrece. 



130 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1786. The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their 

swords 
In such a just and charitable war. 

King John . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1787. The petty streams that pay a daily debt 

To their salt sovereign, with their fresh fall's 

haste, 
Add to his flow, but alter not his taste. 

Rape of Lticrece. 

1788. The play, I remember, pleased not the million; 

'twas caviare to the general. 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1789. The play's the thing ! Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1790. The poor advanced, makes friends of enemies. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 79 1. The poorest service is repaid with thanks. 

T. of the S., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1792. The poor wren 

The most diminutive of birds, will fight, 
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1793. The prince of darkness is a gentleman. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

1794. The private wound is deepest. 

TivoG.ofV., Act v. Sc. 4. 

179$. The purest treasure, mortal times afford, 

IS SpOtleSS reputation. Richard //., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1796. The purpose you undertake is dangerous. 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1797. The quality of mercy is not strained ; 

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven 
Upon the place beneath. 

Mer. 0/ Ven., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1798. The rankest compound of villainous smell that 

ever offended nostril ! 

M.W.ofW., Act iii. Sc. 5. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 131 



1799. The raven doth not hatch a lark. 

Titus And., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1800. There are a sort of men, whose visages 
Do cream and mantle like a standing pool. 

Mer.ofVen., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 80 1. There are liars and swearers enough to beat 

the honest men. Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1802. There are more things in heaven and earth, 

Horatio, 
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 5. 

1803. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. 

Jul. C&sar . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1804. There be some sports are painful ; and their 

labour 
Delight in them sets off. 

Tempest . . Act iii. Sc. r. 

1805. There can be no kernel in this light nut ; the 

soul of this man is his clothes. 

All's Well. . Act ii. Sc. 5. 

1806. There cannot be a pinch in death 

More Sharp than this is. C ymbeline . Act i. Sc. 2. 

1807. Therefore a health to all that shot and miss'd. 

T. of the S., Act v. Sc. 2. 

1808. There have been many great men that have 

flattered the people, who ne'er loved them. 

Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1809. There is a cliff whose high and bending head 
Looks fearfully in the confined deep. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

18 10. There is a difference between a grub and a 

butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub. 

Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 4. 

181 1. There is a history in all men's lives. 

2 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 



132 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1 81 2. There is a play to-night before the king". 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

18 1 3. There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also 

moreover a river at Monmouth, and there is 
salmons in both. Henry Vt , Act iv Sc . 7 . 

1 8 14. There is a special providence in the fall of a 

sparrow. Hamlet . . Act v. Sg. 2. 

181 5. There is a tide in the affairs of men, 

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iv. Sc. 2. & 

1 8 1 6. There is a world elsewhere ! 

Coriolanus . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1 8 1 7. There is but one Puritan amongst them, and 
he sings psalms to hornpipes. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

181 8. There is divinity in odd numbers, either in 

nativity, chance, or death. 

M. W.oflV., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 819. There is flattery in friendship. 

He try V. . Act iii. Sc. 7. 

1820. There is full liberty of feasting. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1 82 1. There is gold, and here 
My bluest veins to kiss ; a hand that kings 
Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing. 

Au:.&>Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

1822. There is never a fair woman has a true face. 

Ant.&>Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 6. 

1823. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, 

ditchers, and grave-makers. 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

1824. There is no darkness but ignorance. 

Twelfth N. . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1825. There is no fettering of authority. 

All's Well. .Act ii. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms f?-om Shakspeare. 133 



1826. There is no more mercy in him than there is 

milk in a male tiger. Coriqlanus . Act v. Sc. 4 . 

1827. There is no sure foundation set on blood, 
No certain life achiev'd by others' death. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1828. There is no time so miserable, but a man 

may be true. Tintt f A th., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1829. There is no vice so simple, but assumes 
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 

Mer.o/Ven., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1830. There is no virtue like necessity. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 3. 

183 1. There is some soul of goodness in things evil. 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1832. There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the 

grave, 
To tell US this. Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 5. 

1833. There never yet was a fair woman but she 

made mouths in a glass. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1834. The rich, — 

That have abundance, and enjoy it not ! 

2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1835. The ripest fruit first falls. 

Richard II, Act ii. Sc. x. 

1836. The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, 
For that sweet odour which doth in it live. 

Sonnet 54. 

1837. There's a divinity doth shape our ends, 
Rough-hew them how we will. 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

1838. There's a franklin in the wild of Kent hath 

brought 
Three hundred marks with him in gold. 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 1. 



134 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

1839. There's a time for all things. 

Comedyo/E., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1840. There's beggary in the love that can be 

reckon'd. Ant.&Cleo., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1 841. There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's 

rue for you, there's a daisy ; I would give 
you some violets ; but they withered all 
when my father died. Hamlet . . Ac tiv. Sc. s . 

1842. There's hope a great man's memory may out- 

live his life half a year ; but, by'r lady, he 
must build churches then. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1843. There's husbandry in heaven, 
Their candles are all out. 

Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1844. There's lime in this sack too. There is no- 

thing but roguery to be found in villainous 

man. z Henry IV, Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1845. There's many a man hath more hair than wit. 

Comedyo/E., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1846. There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Den- 

mark, but he's an arrant knave. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 5. 

1847. There's no art 

To find the mind's construction in the face. 

Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 4. 

1848. There's no better sign of a brave mind than 

a hard hand. 2 Henry VLy A ct iv. Sc. 2. 

1849. There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed 

Prune. 2 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1850. There's nothing either good or bad, but think- 

ing makes it SO. Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1 85 1. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. 

Tempest . . Act i. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 135 


1*52 


There's nothing level in our cursed natures, 
But direct villainy. Tim . ofA th., Act iv. Sc. 3. 


1853. 


There's nothing serious in mortality. 

Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 


1854. 


There's not one wise man among twenty that 

Will praise himself. Much Ado. . Act v. Sc. 2. 


1855. 


There's pippins and cheese to come. 

M. IV. 0/ IV., Act i. Sc. 2. 


1856. 


There's place and means for every man alive. 

All's Well. . Activ. Sc. 3. 


1857. 


There's rosemary, that's for remembrance ; 
and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 5. 


1858. 


There's small choice in rotten apples. 

T. of the S., Act i. Sc. 1. 


1859. 


There's such divinity doth hedge a king, 
That treason can but peep to what it would. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 5. 


i860. 


There was never yet philosopher 
That could endure the tooth-ache patiently. 

Much Ado. . Act v. Sc. 1. 


1861. 
1862. 


There will be a world of water shed 
Upon the parting of your wives and you. 

1 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

There will be 
The beauty of this kingdom, I assure you. 

Henry VI 1 1. , Act i. Sc. 3. 


1863. 


The saddest spectacle that e'er I viewed. 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 1. 


1864. 


The sauce to meat, is ceremony : 
Meeting were bare without it. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 


1865. 


These are the youths that thunder at a play- 
house, and fight for bitten apples. 

Henry VI II., Act v. Sc. 3. 



136 Mottoes and Aphoris7?is from SJiakspeare. 

1866. The sea's a thief; whose liquid surge resolves 
The moon into salt tears. 

Tint, of Ath., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1867. These cheeks are pale for watching for your 

good. 2 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 7. 

1868. These drums ! these trumpets ! flutes ! 

Ant.&* Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

1869. These few days' wonder will be quickly worn. 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1870. These gracious words revive my drooping 

thoughts, 
And give my tongue-tied sorrows leave to 

Speak. 3 H enry VI., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1 87 1. These hands are free from guiltless blood- 

shedding, 
This breast from harbouring foul deceitful 

thoughts. 2 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 7. 

1872. These late eclipses in the sun and moon por- 

tend no gOOd tO US. L ear ... Act i. Sc. 2. 

1873. The self-same sun that shines upon his court, 
Hides not his visage from our cottage. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1874. These lies are like the father that begets them; 

gross as a mountain, open, palpable. 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1875. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; 
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, 

In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great 
As when a giant dies. M . for M. . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1876. These old fellows 

Have their ingratitude in them hereditary : 
Their blood is cak'd, 'tis cold, it seldom flows. 

Tim ofAth., Act ii. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 137 

1877. The service and the loyalty I owe 

In doing it pays itself. Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 4 . 

1878. These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life, 
One time or other break some gallows' back. 

2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1879. These violent delights have violent ends, 
And in their triumph die. 

Rom.&Jul. y Act ii. Sc. 6. 

1880. The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabor, 
More than I know the sound of Marcus' 

tongue 
From every meaner man. 

Coriolanus . Act i. Sc. 6. 

1 88 1. The shrill-go rg'd lark so far 
Cannot be seen or heard : do but look up ! 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 6. 

1882. The shrug, the hum, or ha ; these petty brands 
That calumny doth use. Win> Tah , Act a< Sc . i. 

1883. The sight of lovers feedeth those in love. 

A. Y. L. /., Actiii. Sc. 4. 

1884. The silence often, of pure Innocence 
Persuades, when speaking fails. 

Win. Tale . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1885. The silent hours steal on, 
And flaky darkness breaks within the east. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

1886. The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks, 
They are all fire, and every one doth shine ; 
But there's but one in all doth hold his place. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1887. The sleeping and the dead 

Are but as pictures. Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1888. The smallest twine may lead me. 

Much Ado. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 



138 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 



1 889. The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. 

3 Henry VI. , Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1890. The southern wind 

Doth play the trumpet to his purposes. 

1 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 89 1. The spirit of the time shall teach me speed. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1892. The spring, the summer, 
The chiding autumn, angry winter, change 
Their wonted liveries. Mid.N. Dr., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1893. The stars above us govern our conditions. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1894. The strain of man's bred out 
Into baboon and monkey. 

Tim. ofAth., Act i. Sc. 1. 

1895. The strawberry grows underneath the nettle. 

Henry V. . Act i. Sc. 1. 

1896. These strong Egyptian fetters I must break, 
Or lose myself in dotage. 

Ant.&>Cleo., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1897. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, 
Though to itself it only live and die. 

Sotinet 94. 

1898. The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction 
Robs the vast sea. Tim , fAth., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1899. The suit which you demand is gone and dead. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

1900. The sweat of industry would dry, and die 
But for the end it works to. 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 6. 

1 90 1. The sweetest honey 

Is loathsome in its own deliciousness, 
And in the taste confounds the appetite. 

Rom. &»JuL t Act ii. Sc. 6. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 139 

1902. The sweets we wish for turn to loathed sours, 
Even in the moment that we call them ours. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

1903. The swifter speed the better. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1904. The swiftest harts have posted you by land, 
And winds of all the corners kiss'd your sails, 
To make your vessel nimble. 

Cymbeline . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1905. The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. 

Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 4. 

1906. The thanks I give 

Is telling you that I am poor of thanks, 
And scarce can spare them. 

Cymbeline . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1907. The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 6. 

1908. The time is out of joint ; O cursed spite ! 
That ever I was born to set it right ! 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 5. 

1909. The time Of life is short. T Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 2. 

1 9 10. The time when screech-owls cry, and ban- 

dogs howl, 
And spirits walk, and ghosts break up their 

graves. 2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 4. 

191 1. The time will bring on summer, 
When briars shall have leaves as well as 

tnorns - Airs Well. . Act iv. Sc. 4. 

191 2. The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen 
As is the razor's edge invisible. 

Love's L. L. t Act v. Sc. 2. 

191 3. The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes, 
Tabors and cymbals, and the shouting Romans 
Make the sun dance. Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 4 - 



140 Mottoes a?id Ap ho?' is 7ns from Shakspcare. 

1 9 14. The trumpets sound, be mask'd ; the maskers 

come - Love's L.L., Act v. Sc. 2. 

191 5. The trumpet sounds ; retreat, the day is ours. 

1 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 4. 

1 916. The trust I have is in mine innocence, 
And therefore am I bold and resolute. 

2 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

19 1 7. The tyrannous and bloody act is done ; 
The most arch deed of piteous massacre 
That ever yet this land was guilty of. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

191 8. The tyrant custom, most grave senators, 
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war, 
My thrice-driven bed of down. 

Othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

19 1 9. The undeserver may sleep when the man of 

action is called upon. 2 Henry /Kj Act iL Sc . 4 - 

1920. The valiant heart's not whipp'd out of his 

trade. m. for M. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

192 1. The venom clamours of a jealous woman 
Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. 

ComedyofE., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1922. The very head and front of my offending 
Has this extent; no more. 

Othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1923. The very substance of the ambitious is merely 

the shadow of a dream. 

Haj)det . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1924. The violets, cowslips, and the primroses, 

Bear tO my closet. Cymbeline . Act i. Sc. 6. 

1925. The weakest kind of fruit 
Drops earliest to the ground. 

Mcr.o/Ven., Act iv. Sc. 1, 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 141 

1926. The weary sun hath made a golden set; 
And, by the bright track of his fiery car, 
Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

1927. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good 

and ill together. AWs wdL . Act iv . Sc> 3# 

1928. The Welshmen did goot service in a garden 

where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in 
their Monmouth caps. IIenry Vm . Ac t iv. Sc. 7. 

1929. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day ; 
Now spurs the lated traveller apace 

To gain the timely inn. Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 3 - 

1930. The whiteness in thy cheek 
Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. 

2 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. i. 

1 93 1. The will of man is by his reason svvay'd. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1932. The wills above be done ; but I would fain 

die a dry death. Tempest . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

1933. The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, 
And you are staid for. Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1934. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lee 
Is left this vault to brag of. 

Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1935. The wolves have preyed ; and look, the gentle 

day 
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. 

Muck Ado. . Act v. Sc. 3. 

1936. The words of Mercury are harsh after the 

SOngS Of Apollo. Love's L. L., Act v. Sc. 2. 

1937. The world is grown so bad 
That wrens make prey where eagles dare not 

perch. Richd. in., Act i. Sc. 3 . 



142 Mottoes a?id Aphorisms front Shakspeare. 

1938. The world is still deceived with ornament. 

Mer.o/Vcn., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1939. The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. 

Rom.&Jul., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1940. The world must be peopled. 

Much Ado. . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1 94 1. The worst is death, and death will have his 

d av - Richard II., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1942. The worst is not, 

So long as we can say, This is the worst. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1943. They are as sick that surfeit of too much, as 

they that starve with nothing. 

Mer. o/Ven., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1944. They are but beggars that can count their 

WOrth. Rom.&Jul., Act ii. Sc. 6. 

1945. They call for dates and quinces in the pantry. 

Rom.&JuL, Act iv. Sc. 4. 

1946. The yearly course that brings this day about, 
Shall never see it but a holy day ! 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1947. They fool me to the top of my bent. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1948. They have been at a great feast of languages, 

and have stolen the scraps. 

Love's L. L., Act v. Sc. 1. 

1949. They laugh that win. otiteiio . . Activ. Sc. x. 

1950. They love not poison that do poison need. 

Ric/iard II., Act v. Sc. 6. 

195 i. The younger rises when the old doth fall. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1952. They say, best men are moulded out of faults. 

M./orM. . Act v. Sc. 1. 

1953. They say blood will have blood. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 



Mottoes ci7id Ap/wrisms f7'om Shakspeare. 143 

1954. They say that they have measured many a mile, 
To tread a measure with you en this grass. 

Love s L. L. Act v. Sc. 2. 

1955. They that have power to hurt, and will do none ; 
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces. 

Sonnet 94. 

1956. They that lose half, with greater patience bear 

it, 
Than they whose whole is swallowed in con- 
fusion. Rape of L ncrece. 

1957. They that stand high have many blasts to shake 

them, 
And if they fall they dash themselves to pieces. 

Richd. III., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1958. They that thrive well take counsel of their 

inendS. Venus a7id Adonis. 

1959. They that touch pitch will be defiled. 

Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

i960. They that watch see time, how slow it creeps. 

Rape of I,ucrece. 

1 96 1. They told me I was everything; 'tis a lie ; I 

am not ague-proof. Lear . . . Ac t iv. Sc. 6. 

1962. They whose guilt within their bosoms lie, 
Imagine every eye beholds their blame. 

Rape of Liter ece. 

1963. Thieves are not judg'd, but they are by to hear, 
Although apparent guilt be seen in them. 

Richard II., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

1964. Things bad begun make strong themselves by 

»*■ Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1965. Things ill got have ever bad success. 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1966. Things in motion sooner catch the eye 
Than what not stirs. Troilui&C. t Act iii. Sc. 3. 



1 44 Mottoes and ApJwrisjns from Shakspeare. 

1967. Things must be as they may. 

Hejiry V. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1968. Things out of hope are compass'd oft with 

Venturing. Vcnus and Adonis. 

1969. Things past redress are now with me past care. 

Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

1970. Things sweet to taste, prove in digestion sour. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 3. 

1 97 1. Things without remedy 
Should be without regard. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 2 1 

1972. Things won arc done : Joy's soul lies in the 

doing. Troilus&C, Act i. Sc. 2. 

1973. Think'st thou, I'd make a life of jealousy ; 
To follow still the changes of the moon 

With fresh suspicions ? Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

1974. Think you a little din can daunt mine ears ? 

T. of the S., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1975. This accident is not unlike my dream ! 

Othello . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

1976. This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of leth- 

argy ; a sleeping of the blood. 

2 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1977. This battle fares like to the morning's war, 
When dying clouds contend with growing light. 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

1978. This blessed day 
Ever in France shall be kept festival. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1979. This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air 
Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself 
Unto our gentle senses. 

Macbeth . . Act L Sc. 6. 

19S0. This day, all things begun come to ill end. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. x. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 145 

1 98 1. This even-handed justice 
Commends the ingredients of our poison'd 

chalice 

TO Our Own lips. Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 7. 

1982. This fellow hath no drowning mark upon him ; 

his complexion is perfect gallows. 

Tempest . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

1983. This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas. 

Love's L. L. Act v. Sc. 2. 

1984. This fellow's of exceeding honesty, 
And knows all qualities with a learned spirit 
Of human dealings. othello , . A ct Hi. Sc 3 . 

1985. This gentleman of mine hath serv'd me long; 
To build his fortune I will strain a little, 
For 'tis a bond in men. Tintt ofAth . Act i Sc . i. 

1986. This grave shall have a living monument. 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

1987. This, in the name of God, I promise here; 
The which, if He be pleased, I shall perform. 

1 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1988. This is some fellow, 

Who, having been prais'd for bluntness, doth 

affect 
A saucy roughness. Lcar ... Act ii. Sc. 2. 

1989. This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever 
Ran on the green sward. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

1990. This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep 
Did mock sad fools withal. 

Pericles . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

1 99 1. This is the very ecstasy of love. 

Hamlet • . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1992. This love will undo us all. O Cupid, Cupid, 

Cupid ! Troilus&C, Act iii. Sc. 1. 



146 Mottoes and Aphorism 



1993. This man hath marr\l his fortune. 

: - 

1994. This monument five hundred yearshath stood, 
Which I have sumptuously re- 

Titus 

1995- This must be answer'd, either here, or hence. 

King John . Ad iv. 

J 996. This must be patch'd 

With cloth of any colour. 

Coriolanus . Act lii. Sc. x. 

1997. This night I hold an old accustomed feast. 

Rom. & Jul., Act i. Sc. 2. 

1998. This only is the witchcraft I have used. 

Otlvello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

1999. This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2000. This secret is so weighty; 'twill require 
A strong faith to conceal it. 

Henry VI I I., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2001. This sight of death is as a bell, 
That warns my old age to a sepulchre. 

Rom.&Jul., Act v. Sc. 3. 

2002. This small inheritance my father left me 
Contenteth me, and's worth a monarchy. 

2 Henry IV., Aciiv. Sc.io. 

2003. This was the most unkindest cut of all. 

Jul. Casar . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2004. This was the noblest Roman of them all. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act v. Sc. 3. 

2005. This weighty business will not brook delay. 

2 Henry VI. , Act i. Sc. 1. 

2006. This wide and universal theatre 

Presents more woeful pageants than the scene 
Wherein we play in. A. V. L. I. . A* u. Sc. 7 . 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from SJiakspcare. 147 

2007. This will last out a night in Russia, 
When nights are longest there. 

31. for M. . Act ii. Sc. i. 

2008. Those cold ways 

That seem like prudent helps, are very poison- 
ous 
Where the disease is violent. 

Coriolanus . Act iii. Sc. i. 

2009. Those girls of Italy, take heed of them ! 

All's Well. . Act ii. Sc. i. 

2010. Thou art all, and all things else are thine. 

A Lover's Complaint. 

201 1. Thou art a summer bird, 
Which ever in the haunch of winter sings 

The lifting up of day. 2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 4 . 

2012. Thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy, worth 

five of Agamemnon, and ten times better 
than the Nine Worthies. 

2 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

2013. Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2014. Thou art my friend, that know'st my tongue 

so well. King y ohn t Act v g c< 6# 

201 5. Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight. 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 1. 

2016. Thou art the ruins of the noblest man 
That ever lived in the tide of times. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2017. Thou by thy dial's shady stealth may'st know, 
Time's thievish progress to eternity. 

Sonnet 77. 

2018. Thou dost conspire against thy friend, 

If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st 
his ear 

A stranger to thy thoughts. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 



148 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

2019. Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, 
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage. 

Ricliard II., Act i. Sc. 3. 

2020. Thou dost look 

Like Patience, gazing on kings' graves, and 
smiling 

Extremity OUt of act. Pericles . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

2021. Thou fond mad woman, 

Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy ? 

Richard II., Act v. Sc. 2. 

2022. Though authority be a stubborn bear ; yet he 

is oft led by the nose with gold. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2023. Though it appear a little out of fashion, 
There is much care and valour in this Welsh- 
man. Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2024. Though it be honest, it is never good 

To bring bad news. Ill tidings tell them- 
selves. Ant.&Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

2025. Though men can cover crimes with bold, 

stern looks, 
Poor women's faces are their own fault's books. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

2026. Though patience may be a tired mare, yet she 

will plod. Henry K . Act n. sc. 1. 

2027. Though the cameleon, Love, can feed on the air, 
I am one that am nourished by my victuals. 

TzuoG.qfV., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2028. Though this be madness, yet there is method 

m it- Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2029. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be 

^ied. R a p e f Lucrece. 

2030. Thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool. 

1 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 4. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms fro?n S/iakspeare. 149 

2031. Thoughts unstained do seldom dream of evil. 

Rape of Lucre ce. 

2032. Though woe be heavy, yet it seldom sleeps. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

2033. Though you change your place, you need not 

change your trade. M.forM. . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2034. Thou hast done a deed at which valour will 

Weep. Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 4. 

2035. Thou in this shalt find thy monument, 
When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are 

Spent. Sonnet 107. 

2036. Thou look'st 

Modest as Justice, and thou seem'st a palace 
For the crown'd Truth to dwell in. 

Pericles . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

2037. Thou mak'st faults gracious that to thee resort. 

Sonnet 96. 

2038. Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd 

in brine, 
Smarting in ling'ring pickle. 

Ant.&>Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

2039. Thou shalt have egress and regress : said I 

we H ? M.JV.of IV., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2040. Thou shouldst desire to die, being miserable. 

Tim.ofAth., Act iv. Sc. 5. 

2041. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou 

hadst been wise. Lear . . . Ac t i. Sc. 5 . 

2042. Thou troublest me ; I am not in the vein. 

Riclui. III., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2043. Thou, trumpet, there's my purse, 

Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe 

Troilus&>C, Act iv. Sc. 5. 

2044. Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nurs'd. 

Ro»i.&>Jul. i Act i. Sc j. 



I 

150 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare, 

2045. Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove, 

or most magnanimous mouse. 

2 Henry IV., Act Hi. Sc. 2. 

2046. Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell ! 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

2047. Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; 
And he but naked though locked up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2048. Thrift is blessing, if men steal it not. 

Mcr.of Vcn., Act i. Sc. 3. 

2049. Thriftless ambition, that will ravin up 
Thine own life's means ! Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 4 . 

2050. Thrift, thrift, Horatio ! the funeral bak'd 

meats 
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2051. Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge 

Christ ! x Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2052. Through tattered clothes small vices do appear, 
Robes and furred gowns hide all. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 6 

2053. Throw physic to the dogs. 

Macbeth . . Act v. Sc. 3. 

2054. Thus far into the bowels of the land 
Have we march'd on without impediment. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 2. 

2055. Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course 
And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory. 

3 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 3. 

2056. Thus hath the course of justice whirFd about. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

2057. Thus like the formal vice Iniquity, 

I moralize two meanings in one word. 

Richd. II/., Act iii. Sc. t. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from SJiakspeare. 151 

2058. Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor. 

Tim, of A th., Act iv. Sc. 2 

2059. Thus saith the duke, thus hath the duke 

inferr'd. Richd. ill., Act iii. Sc. 7 . 

2060. Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud. 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

2061. Thus we play the fools with the time ; and 

the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and 

mock US. <z Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2062. Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; 
Thou has no speculation in those eyes 

That thou dost glare with ! 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

2063. Thy eternal summer shall not fade. 

So? met 18. 

2064. Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties 

wear, 
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste. 

Sonnet 77. 

2065. Thy grave admonishments prevail with me. 

1 He?iry VI., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

2066. Thy greyhounds are as swift 
As breathed stags, aye, fleeter than the roe. 

T. of the S., Induction. 

2067. Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer 

them, 
And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth. 

T. of the S., Induction. 

2068. Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave 
But not remembered in thy epitaph, 

x Henry IV. t Act v. Sc. 4. 

2069. Thy love is better than high birth to me, 
Richer than wealth. Sonnet ox. 



152 Mottoes and Aphoris?ns from Shakspeare. 

2070. Thy lovely argument 
Deserves the travail of a worthier pen. 

Sonnet 79. 

2071. Thy solicitor shall rather die 
Than give thy cause away. 

Othello . . Acl iii. Sc. 3. 

2072. Thy tongue 

Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd 
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower. 

1 Hefiry IV. t Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2073. Time and the hour runs through the roughest 

day. Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

2074. Time comes stealing on by night and day. 

ComedyofE., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

207$. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, 
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow. 

So tine t 60. 

2076. Time is like a fashionable host, 

That slightly shakes his parting guest by the 

hand ; 
And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would 

fly. 

Grasps in the comer. Trmlus&C, Act iii. Sc. 3 . 

2077. Time is the old justice that examines all such 

offenders, and let time try. 

A. Y. L. I., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2078. Time it is, when raging war is done, 

To smile at 'scapes, and perils overblown. 

T. of tJie S., Act v. Sc. 2. 

2079. Time's glory is to calm contending kings, 

To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

2080. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. 

Lear . . . Act i. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 153 

2081. Tis a common proof 

That lowliness is young ambition's ladder. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. i. 

2082. 'Tis a meritorious fair, design 
To chase injustice with revengeful arms. 

Rape of L,2icrece. 

2083. 'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own 

fingers. Rom. & Jul., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2084. 'Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord, 
When men are unprepar'd, and look not for it. 

Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2085. 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud. 

3 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 4. 

2086. 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white 
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. 

Twelfth N. . Act i. Sc. 5. 

2087. 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp 
Than with an old one dying. 

Ant.&>>Cleo., Act iii. Sc. 11. 

2088. 'Tis better to be brief than tedious. 

Richd. III., Act i. Sc. 4. 

2089. 'Tis better to be much abused 
Than but to know't a little. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2090. 'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill is 

upon his own head. Henry Vt , Act iv . Sc> r< 

2091. 'Tis deeds must win the prize. 

T. of the S., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2092. 'Tis double death to drown in ken of shore. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

2093. 'Tis ever common, 

That men are merriest when they are from 

nome - Henry V. . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2094. 'Tis gold which buys admittance. 

Cytnbcline . Act ii. Sc. 3. 



154 


Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 


2095- 


'Tis good to be sad and say nothing. 




A. V. L. I., Act iv. Sc. 1. 


2096. 


'Tis in my memory lock'd 




And you yourself shall keep the key of it. 




Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 


2097. 


Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. 




Othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 


2098. 


'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag. 




1 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 


2099- 


'Tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. 




1 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 2. 


2 IOO. 


'Tis not a year or two shows us a man. 




" Othello . .Act iii. Sc. 4. 


2 IOI. 


'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, 




But to support him after. 




Tim. of A th., Act i. Sc. 1. 


2I02. 


'Tis not strange 




That even our loves should with our fortunes 




Change. Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 


2I03. 


'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth, 




But the plain single vow that is vowed true. 




All's Well. . Activ. Sc. 2. 


2 IO4. 


'Tis old but true ; Still swine eat all the draff. 




M. IV. 0/ IV., Activ. Sc. 2. 


2I05. 


'Tis one of those odd tricks which sorrow 




shoots 




Out of the mind. Ant.&Cleo., Act iv. Sc. 2. 


2I06. 


'Tis safer to be that which we destroy 




Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. 




Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 


2I07. 


'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb 




In the dead carrion. 2 Henry rv. t Act iv. Sc. 4. 


2I08. 


'Tis the curse of service, 




Preferment goes by letter and affection. 




Othello . . Act i. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from SJiakspcare. 155 

2109. 'Tis the soldiers' life 

To have their balmy slumbers wak'd with 

Strife. Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2 1 10. 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. 

Pericles . .Act i. Sc. 2. 

2 1 1 1. To add greater honours to his age, 

Than man could give him, he died fearing 

God. HenryVIII., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

21 12. To be a make-peace shall become my age. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2 1 13. To be a queen in bondage is more vile 
Than is a slave in base servility. 

1 Henry VI. , Act v. Sc. q. 

2 1 14. To be a well-favoured man is the gift of for- 
tune ; but to write and read comes by nature. 

Much Ado. . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

21 15. To be direct and honest is not safe. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

21 16. To be honest as this world goes, is to be 
one man picked out of two thousand. 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

21 17. To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. 

TiuoG. of V., Act iii. Sc. i. 

2 1 1 8. To be wise and love 

Exceeds man's might. Tn>£lus&C. t Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2 1 1 9. To be worst, 

The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune, 
Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear. 

J. car . . . Act iv. Sc. i. 

2120. To business we love we rise betime, 
And go to't with delight. 

Aiit.&Clco.y Act iv. Sc. 4. 

2121. To climb steep hills 
Requires slow pace at first. 

HenryVIII., Act i. Sc 1. 



156 Mottoes ajid Aphoj'isms from Shakspeare. 

2122. To die by thee were but to die in jest, 
From thee to die were torture worse than 

death. 2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2123. To expostulate 

Why day is day, night night, and time is 

time, 
Were nothing but to waste night, day, and 

time. Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

21 24. To fear the worst oft cures the worst. 

Troilns&>C, Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2125. To fly the boar, before the boar pursues, 
Were to incense the boar to follow us. 

Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2126. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2127. To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nim- 

ble hand is necessary for a cutpurse. 

Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2128. To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my 

arms, 
And, like the kind life-rend'ring pelican, 
Repast them with my blood. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 5. 

2129. To hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature, to 

show virtue her own feature, scorn her own 
image, and the very age and body of the 
time his form and pressure. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2130. To keep an adjunct to remember thee, 
Were to import forgetfulness in me. 

Sonnet 122. 

2 1 31. To keep that oath were more impiety, 

Than Jephtha's when he sacrificed his daughter. 

3 Henry VI, Act v. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes a?id Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 157 

2132. To know our enemies' minds, we'd rip their 

hearts ; 
Their papers, is more lawful. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 6. 

2133. To me he seems like diamond to glass. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2134. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day 
To the last syllable of recorded time. 

Macbeth . . Act v. Sc. 5. 

2135. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, 
Is the next way to draw new mischief on. 

Othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

2136. To move wild laughter in the throat of death, 
It cannot be ; it is impossible : 

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. 

Love's L. L., Act v. Sc. 2. 

2137. Tongues to be, your being shall rehearse. 

Sonnet 81. 

2138. To-night we hold a solemn supper, sir, 
And I'll request your presence. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. I. 

2139. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 

Rom.&>Jul. y Act ii. Sc. 6. 

2140. Torches are made to light ; jewels to wear. 

Venus and Adonis. 

2 141. To reap the harvest of perpetual peace, 
By this one bloody trial of sharp war. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 2. 

2142. To revenge is no valour, but to bear. 

Tim.ofAth., Act iii. Sc. 5. 

2143. To say to thee that I shall die, is true ; but — 

for thy love, by the lord, no. 

J/i-rtry V. . Act v. Sc. 2. 

2144. To say you are welcome were superlluous. 

Pericle* . . Act ii. Sc \. 



158 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare, 



2145. To see how God in all his creatures works ! 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2146. To see now, how a jest shall come about ! 

Rom.&>Jul., Act i. Sc. 3. 

2147. To see sad sights moves more than hear them 

to ld. Rape of Lttcrece. 

2148. To sleep! perchance to dream; ay, there's 

the rub ! Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2149. To thee I do commend my watchful soul, 
Ere I let tall the windows of mine eyes ; 
Sleeping, and waking, O, defend me still. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

2150. To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of 

a feast, suits a dull fighter and a keen guest. 

1 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

21 51. To thine own self be true ; 

And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou can'st not then be false to any man. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

2152. To this effect, sir; after what flourish your 

nature will. 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

2153. To this urn let those repair, 
That are either true or fair. 

Passionate Pilgrim, 20. 

2154. To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, 

And witch the world with noble horsemanship. 

1 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2155. To what base uses we may return. 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

2156. To whom do lions cast their gentle looks ? 
Not to the beast that would usurp their den. 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 159 

2157. To wilful men, 

The injuries that they themselves procure 
Must be their schoolmasters. 

Lear . . . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

2158. To write and read 
Be henceforth treacherous ! 

Cyinbeline . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2159. To you all, good health ! 

HenryVIII., Act i. Sc. 4. 

2160. To your protection I commend me, gods ! 
From fairies, and the tempters of the night 
Guard me, beseech ye ! Cymbeline . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2 161. Travellers must be content. 

A. Y. L. I., Act. ii. Sc. 4. 

2162. Treason and murder ever kept together. 

Henry V. . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2163. Treason is but trusted like the fox. 

1 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 2. 

2164. Treason is not inherited. 

A. Y. L. I., Act i. Sc. 3. 

2165. Trifles, light as air, 
Are to the jealous confirmation strong 

As proofs of holy writ. otheUo . , Ac tiii. Sc. 3. 

2166. True grief is fond and testy as a child. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

2i6y. True hope is swift, and flies with swallows'" 
wings, 
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures 

kings. Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 2. 

2168. True lovers run into strange capers. 

A. V. L. I., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

2169. True nobility is exempt from fear. 

9 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc 1. 

2170. True — sweet beauty, liv'd and died with him. 

/ 'tntU and Adonis. 



160 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 



21 j i. Trumpeters 

With brazen din, blast you the city's ear ; 
Make mingle with our rattling tambourines. 

Ant.&Cleo., Act iv. Sc. 8. 

2172. Trumpets, speak ! Lear . . . Ac t v. Sc. 3 . 

2173. Trust nobody, for fear you be betray'd. 

2 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

2174. Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, 
For villainy is not without such rheum. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2175. Truth hath a quiet breast. 

Richard II. , Act L Sc. 3. 

2 1 76. Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. 

TwoG.ofV., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2177. Truth is truth 
To the end of reckoning. 

M. for M. . Act v. Sc. 1. 

2178. Truth loves open dealing. 

Henry VIII., Act iii. Sc 1. 

2179. Truth will come to light; murder cannot be 

hid long. MeTm f Ven. t Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2 1 80. Try what repentance can ; — what can it not ? 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2 1 81. Turn melancholy forth to funerals. 

Mid. N. Dr., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2182. Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian. 

Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 5. 

2183. 'Twas never merry world 

Since lowly feigning was called compliment. 

Twelfth N. . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2184. 'Twas never my desire yet to trouble the poor 

with begging. Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2185. Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. 

1 Henry I V., Act v. Sc. 4. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 161 

2186. Two truths are told, 

As happy prologues to the swelling act. 

Macbeth . . Act i. Sc 3. 

2187. Tyrants' fears 

Decrease not, but grow faster than the years. 

Pericles . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2188. Under a compelling occasion, let women die. 

Between them and a great cause, they should 
be esteemed nothing. A nt.&cieo., Act i. Sc. 2. 

2189. Unbidden guests 

Are often welcomest when they are gone. 

1 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2190. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 

2 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2 191. Unheedful vows may needfully be broken. 

TwoG. of V., Act ii. Sc. 6. 

2192. Unkindness may do much. 

Othello . . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2193. Unnatural deeds 
Do breed unnatural troubles. 

Macbeth . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

2194. Unquiet meals make ill digestions. 

Comedy of E., Act v. Sc. 1. 

2195. Unreasonable creatures feed their young. 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2 196. Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring. 

Rape of Lucrece. 

2197. Unthread the rude eye of rebellion 

And welcome home again discarded faith. 

King Jo Jin . Act v. Sc. 4, 

2198. Unwholesome weeds take root with precious 

fl owers. Ka p c n f L ucrccc . 

2199. Upon a homely subject love can wink. 

Two G. of V., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

2200. Upon her wit cloth earthly honour wait. 

Titus And. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

M 



1 62 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 

2 20 1. Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss, 
As seal to the indenture of my love. 

King John . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2202. Use almost can change the stamp of nature 
And either curb the devil or throw him out. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

2203. Use every man after his desert, and who 

should 'scape whipping ? Use them after 
your own honour and dignity; the less they 
deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2204. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! 

HenryVIII., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2205. Valour is the chiefest virtue 
And most dignifies the haver. 

Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2206. Venus smiles not in a house of tears. 

Rom.&> Jul., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2207. Very like a whale ! Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc 2. 

2208. Very little pains 

Will bring this labour to a happy end. 

Ki?ig John . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2209. Vex not his ghost : O, let him pass ! he hates 

him 
That would upon the rack of this rough world 
Stretch him out longer. Lear . . .Act v. Sc. 3. 

2210. Vice sometimes is by action dignified. 

Rom.&Jul., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

221 1. Violent fires soon burn out themselves. 

Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2212. Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous evil 
Are empty trunks, o'erfiourished by the devil. 

Twelfth N. . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

2213. Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful. 

M. for M. . Act iii. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 163 

2214. Virtue is of so little regard in these coster- 

monger times, that true valour is turned 
bear-herd. vHenrylV., Act I Sc. 2. 

2215. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

2216. Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied. 

Rom. &■ Jul., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2217. Wake not a sleeping wolf. 

2 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 2. 

2218. Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. 

1 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2219. Was ever book containing such vile matter 
So fairly bound*? Rom.&jul, Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2220. Was ever feather so lightly blown to and from as 

this multitude ? 2 Henry VLi Act iv . Sc . 8. 

2221. Was ever woman in this humour woo'd ? 
Was ever woman in this humour won ? 

Richd. Ill, Act i. Sc. 2. 

2222. Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, 
Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write 
Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead ? 

Sonnet 86. 

2223. We are all frail. M.forM. . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

2224. We are arrant knaves all. 

Hatnlet . . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2225. We are born to do benefits. 

Tim.o/Ath., Act i. Sc. 2. 

2226. Weariness 

Can snore upon a flint, when restive sloth 
Finds the down pillow hard. 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 6. 

2227. We are not the first 

Who with best meaning have incurred the 
worst. i ear t t t Act v. Sc 3- 



164 Mottoes and Aphorisms fro?n Shakspeare. 

2228. We are not ourselves 

When nature, being oppress'd, commands the 

mind 
To suffer with the body. Lear ... Act ii. So 4 . 

2229. We are not over happy; on fortune's cap we 

are not the very button. 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc 2. 

2230. We are simple men; we do not know what is 

brought to pass under the profession of for- 
tune telling. m. vv. of IV., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2231. We are such stuff as dreams are made of. 

„ Tempest . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2232. We are time's subjects, and time bids us begone. 

2 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 3. 

2233. We call a nettle but a nettle; 
And the faults of fools but folly. 

Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2234. We cannot all be masters, nor all masters 
Cannot be truly followed. 

Othello . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

2235. We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2236. We drink this standing bowl of wine to him. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2237. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2238. We fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. 

1 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 4. 

2239. We have a hot venison pasty to dinner. 

M.IV. of IV., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2240. We have a trifling foolish banquet towards. 

Rom. &*Jul., Act i. Sc. 5. 

2241. We have heard the chimes at midnight, mas- 

ter Shallow. 2 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes cmd Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 165 

2242. We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it. 

Macbeth . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2243. We have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk 

invisible. z Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2244. We hold our time too precious to be spent 
With such a brabbler. King John . Act v. Sc. 2. 

2245. We, ignorant of ourselves, 

Beg often our own harms, which the wise 
powers 

Deny US for Our good. Ant.&Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2246. We know what we are, but know not what we 

ma y be. Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 5. 

2247. Welcome ever smiles, 
And farewell goes out sighing. 

Troilus&C, Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2248. Welcome hither, as is the spring to earth. 

IV in. Tale . Act v. Sc. 1. 

2249. Welcome, ladies, welcome. 

Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 4. 

2250. Welcome these pleasant days! 

2 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 3. 

2251. Well are you welcome to this open air. 

Richd. III., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2252. We'll have flesh for holidays, fish for fasting 

days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2253. Well, I cannot last ever. I were better to be 

eaten to death with rust, than to be scoured 
to nothing with perpetual motion. 

2 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 2. 

2254. Well learned is that tongue that well can thee 

commend, 
All ignorant that soul that sees thee without 

WOnder. Passionate Pilgrim, 3. 



1 66 Mottoes and Aphoris?tis from Shakspeare. 

2255. Well spoken, with good accent, and good 

discretion. Hamlet . . Act ii. So 2. 

2256. We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2257. Well, we are all mortal. Much Ado. .Act i. Sex. 

2258. We must look from his age to receive the 

unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric 
years bring with them. 

Lear . . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

2259. We must not make a scarecrow of the law. 

M. for M. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2260. We must speak by the card, or equivocation 

Will undo US. Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

2261. W 7 e owe thee much; within this wall of flesh 
There is a soul counts thee her creditor. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2262. Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast 
Yet love breaks through, and picks them all 

at last. Vetius and Adonis. 

2263. Were it my cue to fight, I should have 

known it 
Without a prompter. otheiio . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2264. Were such things here as we do speak about ? 
Or have we eaten on the insane root, 

That takes the reason prisoner ? 

Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

2265. We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind 
That even our corn shall seem as light as 

Chaff. 2 Henry IV., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2266. We shall feed like oxen at a stall ; 

The better cherished still the nearer death. 

1 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 2. 

2267. We still have known thee for a holy man. 

Rom. &Jid., Act v. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 167 



2268. We that have good wits have much to answer 

f° r - A. Y. L. /., Act v. Sc. 1. 

2269. We turn not back the silks upon the merchant 
When we have spoil'd them. 

Troilus&>C, Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2270. We were born to die. Rom.&jtd., Actiii. Sc. 4 . 

2271. We who now behold these present days 
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to 

Praise. Sonnet 106. 

2272. We will bestow you in some better place, 
Fitter for sickness and for crazy age. 

1 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2273. We will eat a- last year's pippin of my own 

graffing, with a dish of carraways and so 
forth. 2 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 3. 

2274. We will have these things set down by lawful 

Counsel. Cymbeline . Act i. Sc. 5. 

2275. We wound our modesty, and make foul the 

clearness of our deservings, when of our- 
selves we publish them. 

Alls Well. . Act i. Sc. 3. 

2276. What a haste looks through his eyes ! 

Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2277. What a Herod of Jewry is this ! O, wicked, 

wicked world ! M . iv. o/w., Act ii. Sc. i. 

2278. What a piece of work is man ! 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2279. What art thou, whose heavy looks foretell 
Some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue? 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sl. i. 

2280. What can be avoided 

Whose end is purpos'd by the mighty gods ? 

Jul. Cwsar . Act ii. Sc. 2. 



1 68 Mottoes a?id Aphorisjns from Shakspeare. 

2281. What can man's wisdom 
In the restoring his bereaved sense ? 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 4. 

2282. What cannot be avoided 
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 4. 

2283. What cannot be eschew'd must be embrac'd. 

M. W. of IV., Act v. Sc. 5. 

2284. What care these roarers for the name of king? 

Te?nJ>est . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

228$. What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

2286. What earthly name to interrogatories 
Can task the free breath of a sacred king ? 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2287. What fates impose that men must needs abide ; 
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. 

3 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2288. What fool hath added water to the sea ? 

Titus And., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2289. What great ones do, the less will prattle of. 

Twelfth N. . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2290. What hath this day deserv'd ? W 7 hat hath it 

done 
That it in golden letters should be set 
Among the high tides in the calendar. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2291. What he cannot help in his nature you ac- 

count a Vice in him. Coriolanus . Act i. Sc. 1. 

2292. What his heart thinks his tongue speaks. 

Much Ado. . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2293. What infinite heart's ease must kings neglect 
That private men enjoy ! Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2294. What is a man 

But his chief good and market of his time 
Is but to sleep and feed. HamUt . . Act iv. Sc. 4 . 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 169 


2295. 


What is aught but as 'tis valued. 

Troilus&>C, Act ii. Sc. 2. 


2296. 


What is best, that best I wish in thee. 

Sonnet 37. 


2297. 


What is decreed must be. 

Twelfth N. . Act i. Sc. 5. 


2298. 


What is honour ? A word. What is that 

word, honour ? Air. , Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 1. 


2299. 


What is the body when the head is off ? 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 1. 


2300. 


What ; is the jay more precious than the lark 
Because his feathers are more beautiful ? 

T. of the S., Activ. Sc. 3. 


2301. 


What is the trust or strength of foolish man ? 

1 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 


2302. 


What I think I utter, and spend my malice in 

my breath. Coriolanics . Act ii. Sc. 1. 


2303. 


What king so strong 
Can tie the gall up in the slanderer's tongue ? 

M. for M. . Act iii. Sc. 2. 


2304. 


What loss is it to be rid of care ? 

Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 1. 


2305. 


What love can do, that dares love attempt. 

Rom.&> Jul., Act ii. Sc. 2. 


2306. 
2307. 


What lusty trumpet doth thus summon us ? 

King Joh?i . Act v. Sc. 2. 

What makes robbers bold, but too much 




lenity ? 3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 6. 


2308. 


What, man ! 'tis a night of revels. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 


2309. 


What mask ? what music ? How shall we 

beguile 
The loss of time, if not with some delight ? 

Mid.N. Dr., Act v. Sc. 1. 



1 70 Mottoes aiid Aphorisms fro7?i Shakspeare. 

2310. What need the bridge much broader than the 

flood? 
The fairest grant is the necessity ; 
Look, what will serve is fit. 

Much Ado. . Act i. Sc. 1. 

231 1. What need we any spur but our own cause 
To prick us to redress ? y uL C(Esar . Act iL Sc . 1. 

2312. What our contempts do often hurl from us 
We wish it ours again. Ant.&cieo., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2313. What need we have any friends if we should 

never have any need of them ? 

Tim. of A th., Act i. Sc. 2. 

2314. What raiment will your honour wear to-day ? 

T. of the S., Induction. 

2315. What rein can hold licentious wickedness. 

Henry V. . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2316. What revels are in hand ? Is there no play 
To ease the anguish of a torturing hour ? 

Mid. N. Dr., Act v. Sc. 1. 

2317. What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on 

them, 
Can hold the mortise ? othelio . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2318. What scene of death hath Roscius now to act? 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 6. 

2319. What's gone, and what's past help 

Should be past grief. Win. Tale . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2320. What ! shall we be merry ? Shall we have a 

play extempore ? , Henry IVmt Act a Sc . 4 . 

2321. What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba ? 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2322. What's in a name ? that which we call a rose 
By any other name would smell as sweet. 

Rom.frsjiil., Act ii. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from SJiakspeare. 171 

2323. What's more miserable than discontent? 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. i. 

2324. Whatsoever else shall hap to-night 
Give it an understanding, but no tongue. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2325. What sport to-night ? Ant.&Cleo., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2326. What so blessed-fair that fears no blight ? 

Sonnet 92. 

2327. What stars do spangle heaven with such 

beauty, 
As those two eyes become that heavenly face ? 

T. of the S., Act iv. Sc. 5. 

2328. What stronger breast-plate than a heart un- 

tainted ? 2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2329. What though care killed a cat, thou hast 

mettle enough in thee to kill care. 

Muck Ado . Act v. Sc. 1. 

2330. What though the rose has prickles, yet 'tis 

plUCk G . y en U s and A don is. 

2331. What to ourselves in passion we propose, 
The passion ending doth the purpose lose. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2332. What watchful cares do interpose themselves 
Betwixt your eyes and night ? 

Jul. Cwsar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2333. What wax so frozen but dissolves with tem- 

pering 
And yields at last to every light impression. 

Venus and Adonis. 

2334. What we do determine, oft we break. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2335. What ! will the line stretch out till the crack 

Of doom ? Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 



172 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

2336. What, will you walk with me about the town, 
And then go to my inn and dine with me ? 

Comedy </E., Act L Sc. 2. 

2 3 37- What wound did ever heal but by degrees ? 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2338. What you cannot as you would achieve 
You must perforce accomplish as you may. 

Titus And. . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2339. When beggars die, there are no comets seen; 
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death 

Of princes. y uL Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2340. When Csesar says " Do this," it is performed. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2341. When clouds are seen, wise men put on their 

Cloaks. RichJ. III., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2342. When devils will their blackest sin put on 
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows. 

Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2343. When did friendship take 

A breed of barren metal of his friend ? 

Mer.o/Ven., Act i. Sc 3. 

2344. When envy breeds unkind division 
There comes the ruin, there begins confusion. 

1 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2345. When fortune means to men most good, 
She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

2346. When good will is show'd, though 't come too 

short 
The actor may plead pardon. 

Ant.&Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

2347. When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth 

O'erflow ? Titus And. . Act iii. Sc 1. 

2348. When he speaks 
The air, a charter'd libertine, is still. 

Henry V. . Act i. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 173 

2349. When holy and devout religious men 

Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them 

tnence - Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 7. 

2350. When I have pluck'd the rose 
I cannot give it vital growth again. 

Othello . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

2351. When I love thee not 

Chaos is come again. 0theUo . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2352. When I tell him he hates flatterers 

He says he does ; being then most flattered. 

Jtd. Ccesar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2353. When joy most revels, grief doth most lament. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2 3 54- When love begins to sicken and decay 
It useth an enforced ceremony. 

yul. Ccesar . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2355. When love speaks, the voice of all the gods 
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. 

Love's L. L., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2356. When our actions do not, 
Our fears do make us traitors. 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2357. When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor 

ones may make what price they will. 

Much Ado. . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2358. When sorrows come they come not single spies, 
But in battalions. Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 5 . 

2359. When such strings jar, what hope of harmony? 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2360. When the fox hath once got in his nose, 
He'll soon find means to make his body follow. 

3 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 7. 

2361. When the gods take the wife of a man from 

him, it shows that when old robes are worn 
out there are members to make new. 

Ant.&Clee., Act i. Sc. 2. 



174 Mottoes a?id Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

2362. When the mind's free 

The body's delicate. Lear % . , Act iiL Sc> 4 . 

2363. When the sun sets, the earth doth drizzle dew. 

Rovi.&Jul., Act iii. Sc. 5. 

2364. When the sun sets, who doth not look for night? 

Richd. III., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2365. When there is nothing living but thee, thou 

shalt be welcome. Tim.o/Atk., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2366. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 
I summon up remembrance of things past, 

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought. 

Sonnet 30. 

2367. When valour preys on reason, 
It eats the sword it fights with. 

Ant.&>Cleo., Act iii. Sc. u. 

2368. When we are sick in fortune we make guilty 

of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars. 

Lear . . . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2369. Poet, When we for recompense have praised 

the vile, 
It stains the glory of that happy verse, 
Which aptly sings the good. 

Tim.o/Atk., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2370. When we our betters see bearing our woes, 
We scarcely think our miseries our foes. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 6. 

2371. When workmen strive to do better than well 
They do confound their skill in covetousness. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2372. When you depart from me sorrow abides, and 

happiness takes his leave. 

Much Ado. . Act i. Sc. 1. 

2373. When you do dance I wish you 

A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do 

Nothing but that. Win. Tale . Act iv. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 175 

2374. Where I find him, were it 

At home, upon my brother's guard, even there, 
Against the hospitable canon, would I 
Wash my fierce hand in his heart. 

Coriolanus . Act i. Sc. 10. 

2 37 5* Where is the horse that doth untread again 
His tedious measures with the unbated fire 
That he did pace them first ? 

Mer. o/Ven., Act ii. Sc. 6. 

2376. Where is the patience now 
That you so oft have boasted to retain ? 

Lear . . Act iii. Sc. 6. 

2377. Where is truth if there be no sel f- trust ? 

Rape of Lucrece. 

2378. Where love reigns, disturbing jealousy, 
Doth call himself affection's sentinel. 

Venus and Adonis. 

2379. Wheresoe'er thou art in this world's globe, 
I'll have an Iris that shall find thee out. 

2 Henry IV. , Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2380. Where's that palace, whereunto foul things 
Sometimes intrude not ? otheiio . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2381. Where the greater malady is fixed 
The lesser is scarce felt. Lear ... Act iii. Sc. 4. 

2382. Where we are 
There's daggers in men's smiles. 

Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2383. Where we lay 

Our chimneys were blown down : and, as 

they say, 
Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams 

Of death. Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2384. Which is the wiser here? Justice or Iniquity ? 

M. for M. . Act ii. Sc. 1 



i 76 Mottoes a?id Aphoris7ns from Shakspeare. 



2385. Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes; 
That when I note another man like him 

I may avoid him. Much Ado. . Act v. Sc 1. 

2386. Which of you all 
Will now deny to dance ? 

Rom. & Jul, Act i. Sc. 5. 

2387. While I remain above the ground, you shall 
Hear from me still. Coru>la*u* . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2388. While others fish with craft for great opinion 
I with great truth catch mere simplicity. 

Troilus&C., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

2389. While tlie grass grows, — the proverb is some- 

what musty. Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2390. While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy 

head. Tempest . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2391. Whither fly the gnats but to the sun? 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 6. 

2392. Who alone suffers, suffers most i' the mind. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 6. 

2393. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week, 
Or sells eternity to get a toy? 

Rape of L ucrece. 

2394. Who by repentance is not satisfied 
Is nor of heaven, nor earth. 

TwoG.ofV., Act v. Sc. 4. 

239$. Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and 
furious, 
Loyal and neutral in a moment? 

Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2396. Who can control his fate? 

Othello . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

2397. Who can impress the forest; bid the tree 
Unfix his earth-bound root ? 

Macbeth . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 177 


2398. 


Who does i'the wars more than his captain can 




Becomes his captain's captain. 




Ant.&>Cleo. y Act iii. Sc. i. 


2399. 


Who ever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight? 




A.Y.L. /., Act iii. Sc. 5. 


2400. 


Who finds the heifer dead, and bleeding fresh, 




And sees fast by a butcher with an axe, 




But will suspect 'twas he that made the 




slaughter ? 2 Henry VJmy Act m Sc# 2< 


2401. 


Who is it that says most ? Who can say more 




Than this rich praise, — that you alone are you ? 




Sonnet 84. 


2402. 


Who is't can read a woman ? 




Cymbeline .Act v. Sc. 5. 


2403. 


Who is't can say, / am at the worst ? 




Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 1. 


2404. 


W T ho keeps the gate there, ho ? 




2 He?iry IV., Act i. Sc. 1. 


2405. 


W 7 ho hates honour hates the gods above. 




Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 


2406. 


Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. 




Pericles . . Act i. Sc. 4. 


2407. 


Whom 




We meet here both to thank and to remember 




With honours like himself. 




Coriolanns . Act ii. Sc. 2. 


2408. 


Who not needs shall never lack a friend. 




Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 


2409. 


Who plucks the bud before one leaf put forth ? 




Venus and Adonis. 


2410. 


Who rises from a feast 




With that keen appetite that he sits down ? 




Mrr.ofVen., Act ii. Sc. 6. 


241 1. 


Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting? 




Not he that sets his foot upon her hack. 




3 Henry I '/., A« t ii, Sc. 2. 

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178 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 

2412. Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis 

offer' d 
Shall never find it more. 

Ant.&Cleo., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

2413. Whose hand is it that the forest bear doth lick ? 
Not his that spoils her young before her face. 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2414. Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach? 

Rom.&>Jul., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2415. Who so firm that cannot be seduc'd ? 

Jul. Ccesar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2416. Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes 

them hungry 
The more she gives them speech. 

Pericles . . Act v. Sc. 1. 

2417. Who steals my purse steals trash. 

Othello . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2418. Whose tongue soe'er speaks false, 

Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies. 

King John . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2419. Who wears a garment shapeless and unfinished? 

Venus and Adonis. 

2420. Who will believe my verse in time to come 
If it were filled with your most high deserts. 

Sonnet 17. 

2421. Who will not change a raven for a dove ? 

Mid. N. Dr., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2422. Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt, 
Since riches point to misery and conte-mpt ? 

Tim. o/Ath., Act iv. Sc. 2 

2423. Why, all delights are vain. 

Love's L. L., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2424. Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once. 

M.forM. . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2425. Why, I can smile, and murther while I smile, 
And cry, content, to that which grieves my 

heart. 3 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 179 



2426. Why I will fight with him upon this theme 
Until my eyelids will no longer wag. 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. i. 

2427. Why might not that be the scull of a lawyer ? 

Where be his quicldits now, his quillets, his 
cases, his tenures, and his tricks ? 

Hamlet . . Act v. Sc. i. 

2428. Why now, blow, wind; swell, billow; and 

swim bark ! 
The storm is up, and all is on the hazard. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act v. Sc. i. 

2429. Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he 

makes restitution. MmWm ofw ^ Act v . Sc . 5. 

2430. Why ring not out the bells throughout the 

town ? x Henry VI. } Act i. Sc. 4. 

2431. Why should a man whose blood is warm 

within, 
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? 

Mer. of Veil. , Act i. Sc. x. 

2432. Why should honour outlive honesty? 

Othello . . Act v. Sc. 2. 

2 433« Why should the poor be flatter'd? 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2434. Why should you want ? Behold, the earth 

hath roots; 
Within this mile break forth a hundred springs, 
The oak bears mast, the briars scarlet hips. 

Ti»i. ofAth., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2435. Why, sir, what cerns it you if I wear pearl 

and gold ? Tt of the S ., Act v. Sc. 1. 

2436. Why, then the world's mine oyster, 
Which 1 with sword will open. 

M.W.o/W., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2437. Why, this is a more exquisite song than the 

other. Othello . . Act ii. s . 



180 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 



2438. Why, this is flat perjury, to call a prince's 

brother villain. Much Ado. . Act iv. Sc 2. 

2439. Why, this it is when men are rul'd by women. 

Richd. III., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2440. Why, thou owest heaven a death. 

1 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. i. 

2441. Why wear your leek to-day ? Saint Davy's day- 

is P ast - Henry V. . Act v. Sc. i. 

2442. Why, what an ass am I ! Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2443. Why, what a peevish fool was that of Crete 
That taught his son the office of a fowl, 
And yet, for all his w T ings, the fool was 

drown'd. 3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 6. 

2444. Why, what a wasp-tongue and impatient fool 
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood. 

1 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 3. 

2445. W 7 hy, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth 

and dust; 
And, live we how we can, yet die we must. 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 2. 

2446. Will you go see the order of the course ? 

Jul. CiPsar .Act i. Sc. 2. 

2447. Will you mock at an ancient tradition ? 

Henry V. . Act v. Sc. 1. 

2448. Will you play upon this pipe ? 
Give it breath with your mouth, and it will 

discourse 
Most eloquent music. Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2449. Wil't please your honour taste of these con- 

serves ? T. of the S., Induction. 

2450. Wil't please your lordship drink a cup of sack ? 

T. of the S., Induction. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from SJiakspeare. 181 

2451. Wilt thou have music ? hark ! Apollo plays, 
And twenty cagecl nightingales do sing. 

T. of the S., Induction. 

2452. Win me and wear me. Much Ado. .Act v. Sc, 1. 

2453. Winter being full of care 
Make's Summer's welcome thrice more wished, 

more rare. Sonnet s6m 

2454. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2455. Wisely and slow ; they stumble who run fast. 

Rom.&Jul., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2456. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss. 

3 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 4. 

2457. Wise men ne'er wail their present woes. 

Richard II., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2458. With all my heart I'll gossip at this feast. 

Comedy of E., Act v. Sc. 1. 

2459. With all my heart I'll sit and hear her sing. 

1 Henry I V., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2460. With Cain go wander through the shade of 

night, 
And never show thy head by day nor light. 

Richard II., Act v. Sc. 6. 

2461. With devotion's visage 
And pious action, we do sugar o'er 

The devil himself. Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. i. 

2462. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. 

Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2463. With every minute you do change a mind ; 
And call him noble that was now your hate, 
Him vile that was your garland. 

Coriolanus . Act i. Sc. 1. 

2464. Within the hollow crown 
That rounds the mortal temples of a king 
Keeps death his court. Richard //., An iii. Sc. 2. 



— 
1 82 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

2465. With mine eyes I'll drink the words you send, 
Though ink be made of gall. 

Cymbeli)ie . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2466. Withold thine indignation, mighty heaven, 
And tempt us not to bear above our power ! 

King John . Act v. Sc. 6. 

2467. Woes, by strong imaginations, lose 
The knowledge of themselves. 

Lear . . . Act iv. Sc. 6. 

2468. Women are not 

In their best, fortunes strong ; but want will 

perjure 
The ne'er touch'd vestal. 

Ant.&Cleo., Actiii. Sc. 10. 

2469. Women are roses ; whose fair flower 
Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour. 

Twelfth N. . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

2470. Women, being the weaker vessels, are ever 

thrust tO the Wall. Rom.&Jul, Act i. Sc. 1. 

2471. Women may fall when there's no strength in 

men. Rom. & Jul, Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2472. Women will love her, that she is a woman 
More worth than any man ; men, that she is 
The rarest of all women. 

Win. Tale . Act v. Sc. 1. 

2473. Words are words ; I never yet did hear 
That the bruised heart was pierced through 

the ear. Othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

2474. Words sweetly placed, and modestly directed. 

1 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 3. 

2475. W T ords to the heat of deeds too cold breath 

gives. Macbeth . . Act ii Sc. 1. 

2476. Words without thoughts never to Heaven go. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 183 

2477. Would half my wealth 
Would buy this for a lie ! 

Coriolanus . Act iv. Sc. 6. 

2478. Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so, 
For what is in this world but grief and woe ? 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 5. 

2479. Would I were in an ale house in London : I 

would sell all my fame for a pot of ale and 

Salety. Henry V. .Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2480. Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon ! 

Tim.ofAth., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2481. Write to him 

(I will subscribe) gentle adieus, and greetings ! 

Ant.&Cleo., Act iv. Sc. 5. 

2482. Yea, man and birds are fond of climbing high. 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2483. Yea, this man's brow, like to a title-leaf, 
Foretells the nature of a tragic volume. 

2 Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2484. Ye gods, it doth amaze me, 
A man of such a feeble temper should 
So get the start of the majestic world, 
And bear the palm alone. 

Jul. CcEsar . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2485. Yet hath my night of life some memory, 
My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left. 

ComedyofE.y Act v. Sc. 1. 

2486. Yet shall he have a noble memory. 

Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. 5. 

2487. Yon grey lines 

That fret the clouds, are messengers of day. 

Jul. Cwsar . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2488. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; 
He thinks too much ; such men are dangerous : 
Would he were latter. j nL catar . Act i. Sc. 2. 



184 Mottoes and Aphorisms from SJiakspeare. 

2489. You are my true and honorable wife; 
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops 

That visit my sad heart. JuL Ca;sar , Act n Sc . 1. 

2490. You are no surer 

Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, 

Or hailstone in the sun. coriolauus . Act i. Sc. 1. 

2491. You are one of those that will not serve God 

if the devil bid you. otheilo . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

2492. You are well understood to be a perfecter giber 

for the table than a necessary bencher in 

the Capitol. Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2493. You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate 
As reek o'the rotten fens, whose love I prize 
As the dead carcases of unburied men 

That do corrupt my air, I banish you ! 

Coriolanus . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2494. Y^ou cram these words into mine ear, against 
The stomach of my sense. 

Tempest . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2495. You do as chapmen do, 
Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy. 

Troilus&>C, Activ. Sc. 1. 

2496. You gods! your present kindness 
Makes my past miseries sports. 

Pericles . . Act v. Sc. 3. 

2497. You go not, till I set you up a glass 
Where you may see the inmost part of you. 

Hamlet . Act iii. Sc. 4- 

2498. You have deserv'd nobly of your country. 

Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2499. You have done that you should be sorry for. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act iv. Sc. 3. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 185 

2500. You have seen 

Sunshine and rain at once; her smiles and 

tears 
Were like a better day. Lea . r t , . Activ . Sc . 3. 

2501. You have too much respect upon the world ; 
They lose it that do buy it with much care. 

Mer. ofVen., Act i. Sc. i. 

2502. You know the very road into his kindness, 
And cannot lose your way. 

Coriolanus . Act v. Sc. i. 

2503. You lie in your throat, if you say I am any 

other than an honest man. 

2 Henry IV. , Act i. Sc. 2. 

2504. You may as well go about to turn the sun to 

ice with fanning in his face with a peacock's 
feather. Henry y % . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2505. You may relish him more in the soldier than 

in the Scholar. Othello . . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2506. You might have been enough the man you are 
With striving less to be so. 

Coriolanus . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2507. You never had a servant to whose trust 
Your business was more welcome. 

All's Well. . Activ. Sc. 4. 

2508. Young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so trim 
When king Cophetua lov'd the beggar-maid. 

Rom. &> Jul., Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2509. Young blood doth not obey an old decree. 

Love's L. L. y Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2510. Younger than she are happy mothers made. 

Ko?n.&>Jul., Act i. Sc. 2. 

25 1 1. Young men's love then lies 

Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. 

Rom.&yul. t Act ii. Sc. 3. 



1 86 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

2512. You play the spaniel, 

And think with wagging of your tongue to 
win me. Henry VIII., Act v. Sc. 2. 

2513. Your abilities are too infant-like for doing 

much alone. Coriolanus . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2514. Your Englishman drinks you with facility your 

Dane dead drunk. otheUo t , Act iL Sc 3 

2515. Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men 
May read strange matters. 

Macbeth . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

2516. Your If is the only peacemaker : much 
Virtue in an If. A , Y . L. /., Act v. Sc 4 . 

2517. Your love deserves my thanks, but my desert, 
Unmeritable shuns your high request. 

Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 7. 

2518. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, 
Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read. 

Sonnet 81. 

2519. Your presence makes us rich. 

Richard II., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2520. Your very goodness and your company 

O'erpayS all I Can do. Cymbeline . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

2521. Your worm is your only emperor for diet ; we 

fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat 
ourselves for maggots. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2522. You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, 
As full of grief as age ; wretched in both ! 

Lear . . . Act ii. Sc. 4. 

2523. You shall be as a father to my youth. 

2 Henry J V., Act v. Sc. 2. 

2524. You shall have better cheer ere you depart. 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 6. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 187 

2525. You shall have time to wrangle in when you 

have nothing else to do. 

Ant.&Cleo., Act ii. Sc. i. 

2526. You shall hear from me still : the time shall not 
Out-go my thinking on you. 

Ant.&>Cleo., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2527. You shall not be 

The grave of your deserving : Rome must know 

The Value of her SOn. Coriolanus . Act i. Sc. 9. 

2528. You smell this business with a sense as cold 
As is a dead man's nose. 

Win. Tale . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2529. You souls of geese, 

That bear the shapes of men ; how have you run 
From slaves that apes would beat ! 

Coriolamts . Act i. Sc. 4. 

2530. You speak o' the people as if you were a god 
To punish ; not a man of their infirmity. 

Coriolcuius . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2531. You still shall live 

Where breath most breathes, — even in the 

mOUths Of men. Sonnet 81. 

2532. You, that are old, consider not the capacities 

Of US that are young. 2 Henry IV., Act i. Sc 2. 

2533. Youth, I do adore thee! Passionate Pilgrim,™. 

2534. Youth no less becomes 

The light and careless livery that it wears, 
Than settled age his sables and his weeds. 

Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 7. 

2535. Youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears. 

1 Henry IV., Act ii. Sc. 4. 






1 88 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 



The following have been added during the progress 
of the Work, and are therefore presented under 
a separate alphabetical arrangement. 



2536. A crafty knave does need no broker. 

2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 2. 

2537. A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend. 

Jul. Ccesar . Act v. Sc. 4. 

2538. A good member of the Commonwealth. 

Love's L. L., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2539. A great arithmetician. othdlo , t Act L Sc . r 

2540. A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. 

zHefiry VI. , Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2541. All the souls that were, were forfeit once ; 
And He that might th' vantage best have took, 
Found out the remedy. M . for M. . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2542. A loyal, just, and upright gentleman. 

Richard II., Act i. Sc. 2. 

2543. Ambition's debt is paid. y uL C asar . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2544. A most incomparable man. 

Tim. of A th., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2545. Anger is like 

A full-hot horse ; who being allow'd his way, 

Self-mettle tires him. Henry vin., Act i. Sc i. 

2546. A pancake for Shrove Tuesday. 

Alls Well. . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2547. A pattern to all princes living with her, 
And all that shall succeed. 

Henry VI 1 1., Act v. Sc. 4- 

2548. As clear as founts in July, when 
We see each grain of gravel. 

Henry VIII., Act i. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from SJiakspearc. 189 

2549. At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, 
But at fourscore it is too late a week. 

A. Y. L. I., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2550. Blunt wedges rive hard knots. 

Troilus&>C, Act i. Sc. 3. 

2551. Can no one tell of my unthrifty son ? 

Richard II., Act v. Sc. 3, 

2552. Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins 

Richd. III., Act i. Sc. 4. 

2553. Confess yourself to heaven ; 
Repent what's past. Havdet . . Act m Sc . 3 . 

2554. Corruption wins not more than honesty. 

Henry VI I I., Act in. Sc. 2. 

2555. My joy is — death ; 

Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard. 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 4. 

2556. England is safe, if true within itself. 

3 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2557. Everyman has business and desire, 

Such as it is. Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 4. 

2558. Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every 

subject's soul is his own. 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2559. Every why hath a wherefore. 

Comedyo/E., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2560. Faster than spring-time showers comes thought 

on thought. 2 Henry VLy Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2561. Fie on ambition ! *Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2562. Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all. 

TwoG.ofV., Act i. Sc. 2. 

2563. Flatter, and praise, commend, extol their 

graces ; 
Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' 
faces. Tivo a. oj v., Act iii. Sc. 1. 



iqo Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 



2564. Fly pride, says the peacock ! 

ComcdyofE., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2565. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. 

2 Henry VI. , Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2566. For death remembered should be like a mir- 

ror, 
Who tells us, life's but breath ; to trust it, 

error. Pericles . . Act i. Sc. 1. 

2567. France friend with England ! 

King John . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2568. From me, whose love was of that dignity, 
That it went hand-in-hand, even with the vow 
I made to her in marriage. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 5. 

2569. Give me my boots, I say. 

Richard II, Act v. Sc. 2. 
1570. Give sorrow words. Macb'*h . . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2571. God and His angels guard your sacred throne, 
And make you long become it. 

Henry V. . Act i. Sc. 2. 

2572. God and our good cause fight upon our side. 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

2 5 7 3> God bless thee, and put meekness in thy breast, 
Love, charity, obedience, and true duty. 

Richd. Ill, Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2574. God bless thee, lady. Twelfth x. .Act i. Sc. 5. 

2575. God bless your Grace with health and happy 

days ! Richd. III., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2576. God on our side, doubt not of victory. 

2 Henry VI. , Act iv. Sc. 8. 

2577. God shall be my hope, 
My stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet. 

2 Henry VI. , Act ii. Sc. 3. 



2578. God speed the Parliament 



1 Henry IV., Act iii. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare, 191 
2 5 79' Good wine needs no bush. 

All's Well. . Epilogue. 

2580. Go to your bosom ; 

Knock there ; and ask your heart, what it 
doth know. M%for Mt . Act „. Sc . 2. 

2581. Great God, how just art Thou ! 

2 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. i. 

2582. Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2583. Happy, in that we are not over happy. 

Hamlet . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2584. Have patience, good people. 

A. V. L. I. . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2585. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; 
Not light them for themselves. 

M.forM. .Act i. Sc. 1. 

2586. He dies and makes no sign; O God, forgive 

him ! 2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2587. He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his 

tongue is the clapper. Much Ado , . Act m Sc. 2. 

2588. He robs himself, that spends a bootless grief. 

Othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

2589. He that is proud, eats up himself: pride is 

his own glass, his own trumpet, his own 

Chronicle. Troilus&C, Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2590. He that dies pays all debts. 

Tempest . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2591. He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it 

was his great right to be so. 

Alls Well. . Act i. Sc. 1. 

2592. He was quick mettle when he went to school. 

Jid. Casar . Act i. Sc. 2, 

2593. He who the sword of heaven will bear, 
Should be as holy as severe. 

M . for M. . Act iii. S 



192 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

2594. Honour's train 
Is longer than his foreskirt. 

Henry VI 1 1., Act ii. Sc. 3 

2595. How full of briars is this working-day world ! 

A.Y.L. /., Act i. Sc. 3. 

2596. I earn that I get, get that I wear; owe no man 

hate, envy no man's happiness. 

A. V. L. I., Actiii. Sc. 2. 

2597. If you do fight against your country's foes, 
Your country's fat shall pay your pains the 

nire - Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

2598. I have no other but a woman's reason : 
I think him so, because I think him so. 

Two G.o/V., Act i. Sc. 2. 

2599. I know you have a gentle, noble temper, 

A soul as even as a calm. Henry via., Act iii. Sc. i. 

2600. I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. 

Lear . . . Act iii. Sc. 4. 

2601. In common worldly things, 'tis called ungrate- 

ful, 
With dull unwillingness to repay a debt. 

Richd. III., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2602. In honour of whose birth these triumphs are. 

Pericles . . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2603. In the corrupted currents of this world, 
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2604. In the great hand of God I stand. 

Macbeth . . Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2605. In the morn and liquid dew of youth 
Contagious blastments are most imminent. 

Hamlet . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

2606. I remember him worthy of thy praise. 

Mer. oj Veu., Act i. Sc. 2. 

2607. I smell some goose in this. 

Loz-es L. L., Act iii. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 193 


2608. 


I to the world am like a drop of water, 
That in the ocean seeks another drop. 

Comedy of E., Act i. Sc. 2. 


2609. 


It tutor's nature ; artificial strife 

Lives in these touches, livelier than in life. 

Tim.ofAth.* Act i. Sc. 1. 


2610. 


Join we together for the public good. 

2 Henry VI., Act i. Sc. 1. 


261 1. 


Kindness, nobler ever than revenge. 

A. Y. L. I., Activ. Sc. 3. 


2612. 


Know you not, master, to some kind of men 
Their graces serve them but as enemies ? 

A.Y.L. I., Act ii. Sc. 3. 


2613. 


Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, 

Thy God's, and truth's. HenryVIII., Act iii. Sc. 2. 


2614. 


Let him show 
His skill in the construction. 

Cymbeline . Act v. Sc. 5. 


2615. 


Let them obey, that know not how to rule. 

•2 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 1. 


2616. 


Let your own discretion be your tutor. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 


2617. 


Lord, who would live turmoiled in the court, 
And may enjoy such quiet walks as these ? 

2 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 10. 


2618. 


Love sought is good, but given unsought is 

better. Twelfth N. . Act iii. Sc. 1. 


2619. 


Madam, all joy befall your grace ! 

Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 5. 


2620. 


May honourable peace attend thy throne. 

2 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc. 3. 


2621. 


More, more, I pr'ythee, more. 

A. Y. L. I., Act ii. Sc. 5. 


2622. 


My endeavours 
Have ever come too short of my desires. 

HenryVIII., Act iii. Sc. 2. 





194 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 

2623. Nay, never paint me now ; 
Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow. 

Love's L. L., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2624. No Italian priest shall tithe or toll in our do- 

minions. iCtug John . Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2625. Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives 

again ; 
That she may long live here, God say — Amen ! 

Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 5. 

2626. Of all sorts enchantingly beloved. 

A. Y. L. I., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2627. O good my lord, no Latin. 

Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2628. Oh, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine. 

Love's L. L. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2629. O, that he were here to write. 

Much Ado. . Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2630. O, they love least that lei men know their love. 

TwoG. o/V.y Act i. Sc. 2. 

2631. O, upright, true, and just-disposing God, 
How do I thank thee ! R ichd. III., Activ. Sc 4. 

2632. Our wills and fates do so contrary run, 
That our devices still are overthrown. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2633. Our worser thoughts heaven mend ! 

Ant.&Cleo., Act i. Sc. 2. 

2634. O villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption. 

Richard II. , Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2635. O, what may man within him hide, 
Though angel on the outward side ! 

M. for M. . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2636. Pray speak in English. HenryVIII. t Actw. Sc. i. 

2637. Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill. 

2 Henry VI., Act v. Sc. 2. 






Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 195 


2638. 


Purpose is but the slave to memory, 




Of violent birth, but poor validity. 




Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 


2639. 


Revolve what tales I have told you. 




Cymbeline . Act iii. Sc. 3. 


2640. 


Shame to him, whose cruel striking 




Kills for faults of his own liking ! 




M. for M. . Act iii. Sc. 2. 


2641. 


She'll not be hit 




With Cupid's arrow. R Q m.&Jul. i Act i. Sc. i. 


2642. 


Since maids, in modesty, say No, to that 




Which they would have the profferer construe 




Ay. Two G. of V., Act i. Sc. 2. 


2643. 


Small things make base men proud. 




2 Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 1. 


2644. 


Smile, heaven, upon this fair conjunction. 




Richd. III., Act v. Sc. 4. 


2645. 


So bad a death argues a monstrous life. 




2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 3. 


2646. 


So full of artless jealousy is guilt, 




It spills itself, in fearing to be spilt. 




Hamlet . . Act iv. Sc. 5. 


2647. 


So let him rest, his faults lie gently on him. 




Henry VIII. t Act iv. Sc. 2. 


2648. 


So service shall with steeled sinews toil, 




And labour shall refresh itself with hope. 




He7iry V. . Act ii. Sc. 2. 


2649. 


Such an act, makes marriage vows 




As false as dicer's oaths. HamUt . .Act iii. Sc. 4. 


2650. 


Such an act, takes off the rose 




From the fair forehead of an innocent love, 




And sets a blister there. HanOet . . Act iii. Sc. 4 


2651. 


The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. 




Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 4. 



igG Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 

2652. The fire that mounts the liquor till it run o'er, 
In seeming to augment it, wastes it. 

Henry VI 1 1., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2653. The heart of generosity. 

Coriola?ius . Act i. Sc. 1. 

2654. The heavens have blessed you with a goodly 

son, 
To be your comforter. Rickd . ///., Act i. Sc. 3. 

2655. Then if you fight against God's enemy, 

God will, in justice, ward you as His soldiers. 

Richd.III., Act v. Sc. 3. 

2656. The people's enemy is gone. 

Coriolamcs . Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2657. The power of speech 

To stir men's blood. JuL Ccesar , Act {l Sc- 2< 

2658. The present eye praises the present object. 

Trollies &>C, Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2659. The robbed, that smiles, takes something from 

the thief. Othello . . Act i. Sc. 3. 

2660. The weakest goes to the wall. 

Rom. &> Jul, Act i. Sc. 1. 

2661. The will of heaven be done. 

Henry VI 1 1., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2662. The violence of either grief or joy, 

Their own enactures with themselves destroy. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2663. They do not love that do not show their love. 

Two G. of V., Act i. Sc. 2. 

2664. Thieves for their robbery have authority, 
When judges steal themselves. 

M. for M. . Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2665. Things are often spoke and seldom meant. 

2 Henry VI., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2666. Though last, not least in love. 

Jul. Ccrsar . Act iii. Sc. 1. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 197 

2667. Though they can outstrip men, they have no 

wings to fly from God. 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. i. 

2668. Thou sing'st sweet music. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 2. 

2669. Thou wast born to conquer. 

Tim. o/Ath., Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2670. Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with snow. 
As seek to quench the fire of love with words. 

Two G. of V., Act ii. Sc. 7. 

2671. Thus may we gather honey from the weed, 
And make a moral of the devil himself. 

Henry V. . Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2672. Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. 

TwoG.ofV., Act iii. Sc. 1. 

2673. Tis a kind of good deed to say well: 
And yet words are no deeds. 

HeuryVIII., Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2674. To as much end 
As give a crutch to the dead. 

Henry VIII., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2675. To have seen much and to have nothing, is to 

have rich eyes and poor hands. 

A. Y. L. I, Activ. Sc. 1. 

2676. Truth's a dog must to kennel. 

Lear . . . Act i. Sc. 4. 

2677. Undaunted spirit in a dying breast. 

1 Henry VI, Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2678. Universal plodding poisons us 
The nimble spirits in the arteries. 

Love's L. L., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2679. Untimely storms make men expect a dearth. 

Richd. Ill, Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2680. Virtue that trangresses is but patched with 

sin ; and sin that amends is but patched 
with virtue. Twelfth N. . Act i. Sc. 5. 



198 Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspcare. 



2681. Was he not held a learned man ? 

Henry VI II., Act ii. Sc. 2. 

2682. What doth cherish weeds, but gentle air ? 

3 Henry VI., Act ii. Sc.. 6. 

2683. Whate'er you think, good words, I think, aje 

best. K i Hg John . Act iv. Sc. 3. 

2684. What is done cannot be now amended. 

Richd. III., Act iv. Sc. 4. 

2685. What is the end of study ? let me know. 
Why that to know, which else we should not 

know. LovesL. L., Act i. Sc. 1. 

2686. What is the figure ? What is the figure ? 

Love's L. L., Act v. Sc. 1. 

2687. Where envy breeds unkind division, 

There comes the ruin ; — there begins confu- 
sion ! j Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 1. 

2688. Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall 

shine, 
His honour and the greatness of his name 

Shall be. Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 4. 

2689. Wherefore was I born ? Richard //., Act i. Sc. 3. 

2690. Where great additions swell us, and virtue 

none, 
It is a dropsied honour. AiVs We n , Act u. Sc . 3. 

269 1 . Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2692. Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 

2693. Who bates mine honour, shall not know my 

coin. xim. o/Ath., Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2694. Who in want a hollow friend doth try, 
Directly seasons him his enemy. 

Hamlet . . Act iii. Sc. 2. 



Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakspeare. 199 
2095. Why should a man be proud ? 

Troihis&>C, Act ii. Sc. 3. 

2696. Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man 

regards it. x Henry IV. } Act i. Sc. 2. 

2697. Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your 

hearts. HenryVIIL, Actiii. Sc. 1. 

2698. Yet heavens are just, and Time suppresseth 

Wrongs. 3 Henry VI. , Act iii. Sc. 3. 

2699. You are the hare of whom the proverb goes ; 
Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard. 

Kingjolm . Act ii. Sc. 1. 

2700. You shall not bob us out of our melody. 

Troilus&>C, Act iii. Sc. 1. 




INDEX OF WORDS AND IDEAS. 


[The References are to the Numbers of the Mottoes.] 


Abhorrence, 1260 


Agamemno?i, 2012 


Abilities, 2513 


-Age, 26, 88, no, 137, 330, 


Aboard, 1290 


438, 636, 701, 752, 894, 


Abraham, 1616 


1028, 1032, 1204, 1346, 1426, 


Abraham Cupid, 2508 


1476, 1649, 1655, 1674, 1951, 


Absence, 2122, 2526 


2001, 2019, 2041, 2111, 2112, 


Absolute shall, 565 


2258, 2272, 2285, 2485, 2522, 


Absolution, 1671 


253 2 . 2534, 2549 


Abstract, 1501 


Age and body of the time, 


Abuse of greatness, 1652 


2129 


Accent, 2255 


Ages, the seven, 119, 120, 183, 


Accomplishment, 1972 


1013, 1749, 1770, 1779 


Accursed, 106 1 


Agincourt, 1771 


Achiever, 192 


Agony, 1 173, 2136 


Acre, 1413 


Ague-proof, 1961 


Acting, 2129, 2318 


Air, 1672, 1684, 1979, 2027, 


Action, 465, 810, 915, 1244, 


2165, 2251, 2298, 2348, 2682 


1445, 1603, 1648, 1706, 


Air, desert, 860 


1919, 2091, 2210 


Alabaster, 2431 


Actions, strange. 1597 


Alacrity of spirit, 853 


Actors, 165, 208, 317, 1062, 


Ale, 115, 150, 360, 434, 773 


1070, 1501, 2129, 2346 


Ale-house, 534, 2479 


Adage, 1079 


All hail, 1559 


Adder, 963, 1378, 1653 


Alliance, 437, 1222 


Adieu, 2481 


Almanac, 3 (see Calendar) 


Admiration, 1495 


Ambition, 93, 206, 406, 424, 


Admittance, 2094 


862, noi, 1208, 1311, 1923, 


Admonishments, 2065 


2049, 2081, 2543 


Adversaries, ior 


Amendment, 549, 573 


Adverse faction, 1746 


Amen, 2625 


Adversity, 1029, 1611, 1724, 


Amends, 1284 


2466 


Amity, 1656 


Advice, 14, 324, 1332, 1958 


Amourous, 149 


016 


Ancient, 189 


Affairs ol men, 1815 


Ancient gentlemen, 1823 


Afeard [see Fear) 


Ancient love, 125 


Affection, 1263, 1777 


Ancient quarrel, 2414 


Affection's sentinel, 2378 


Ancient tradition, 2 {47 


Affliction, 18 


Angel, 945, 2635 


Afric, 1260 


Angels, 126, 127, 1277, 2571 


Africa, 937 


Angels' faces, 2563, 2697 



202 Index. 


Angelica, 1089 


Architecture, 1994 


Angela, Lord, 1092, 1093 


Argument, 973 


Anger, 128, 129, 578, 875, 1219, 


Arithmetic, 577 


1418, 1734, 2545 


Arithmetician, 2539 


Anguish, 2316 


Armour, 1438, 2047 


Animals {see Ape, Ass, Baboon, 


Arms, 396, 801, 2076, 2082, 


Bandogs, Bear, Beasts, 


2128 


Birds, Blind puppies, Boar, 


Arrant knaves, 1846, 2224 


Bulls, Cameleon, Cat, Croco- 


Array, proud, 1506 


dile, Curs, Deer, Dog, Fat 


Arrows, 417, 1621 


Sheep, Fox, Greynounds, 


Art, 906, 1129, 1181, 1645, 


Hare, Heifer, Horse, 


1847 


Hounds, Insects, Lamb, 


Arteries, 2678 


Lions, Monkey, Mouse, 


Artificial strife, 2609 


Oxen, Panther, Pard, Rep- 


Artists, 906 


tiles, Seals, Spaniel, Stags, 


Artless jealousy, 2646 


Steers, Still Swine, Tiger. 


Ass, 975, 1296, 2442 


\Yeazel, Wolf) 


Assassination, 270 


Annals, 824 


Assembly, 15, 516 


Anniversaries, 1946, 2290, 2441 


Assurance, 877 


Anointed king, 1261 


Assyrian slings, 108 


Anthems, 441 


Asp, 555 


Antiquary times, 618 


Astrology, 1893, 2368 (set 


Antique song, 1643 


Stars) 


A?ilony, 606, 1496 


Athenian youth, 1593 


Apace, 1547 


Atlas, 2015 


Ape of death (sleep) 1382 


Attent ear, 1495 


Apes, 315, 2529. 


Attorney, 461 


Apollo, 147, 1936, 2451 


Attorneyship, 1140 


Apoplexy, 1976 


Audacious eloquence, 917 


Apothecary, 480, 1399 


Aurora, 1240, 1579 


Apparel, 391, 475, 668, 1657, 


Author, 453, 2629 


1702 [see Clothes, Coat, Cos- 


Authority ; 1825, 2022 


tume, Dress, Foreskirt, Fur- 


Authorship, 349 


red gowns, Gowns, Hoods, 


Autocrat, 656 


Robes, Train) 


Autumn, 436, 1892 


Appearances, false, 2406 {see 


Avarice, 929, 1757 


Deceit) 


Avaunt, 297 


Appetite, 380, 1280, 1304, 1414, 


Axe, 109, 2400 


1901, 2410 


Ay and No, 204 


Apple, Eve's, 702 




Apples, 1865, 1858, 2273 


Babbling dreams, 1043 


Apprehension of death, 1875 


Babe, 2044 


April, 1659 


Babes, 1345 


April day, 1327 


Baboon, 1894 


Arabia, 78 


Bacchanals, 151 1 


Arabian trees, 1365 


Bacchus ', 310 


Arbitrator, 1699 {see Umpire) 


Bacon, 835 


Archers, 417 


Bad beginnings, 1964, 1980 



Index. 203 


Bad death, 2586, 2645 


Beauty's brow, 2075 


Bad dreams (see Dreams) 


Bed, 1364, 1579, 2285 


Badge, 1614 


Bedfellows, 1175 


Bad news, 66, 1705, 2024, 2279 


Bed of down, 19 18 


Bad strokes, 532 


Bees, 529, 1782, 2107 


Ba.ked meats, 1089, 2050 


Beehive, 1782 (see Honey- 


Ballad, 120 


comb) 


Ballad-mongers, 830 


Beetle, 1313, 1875 


Balmy slumbers, 2109 


Beggars, 223, 285, 405, 935, 


Band of brothers, 22^7 


1377. 1944. 2339 


Bandogs, 1910 


Beggar-maid, 2508 


Banishment, 378, 1275, 2493 


Beggary, 347, 1230, 1840 


Bank, 866 


Begging, 2184 


Banquet, 304, 2240 


Beginning of a feast, 2150 


Bare hands, 1151 


Believing souls, 1279 


Barren metal, 2343 


Bell, Bells, 786, 1485, 1740, 


Bark, 669, 1661, 1709 


2001, 2241, 2430, 2587 


Base men, 2643 


Bell, book, and candle, 230 


Base uses, 2155 


Bell, dreadful, 1535 


Bass voices, 15 16 


Bellows, 422 


Battalions, 2358 


Belly, 119, 689 


Battle, 1915, 1928, 1977 


Benediction, 1663 


Battles {see Agincourt, Con- 


Benison, 502 


quests, Glory, Soldiers, War) 


Bent, 1947 


Battle of Agincourt, 1771 


Bereaved sense, 2281 


Battery, n 26 


Best meaning, 2227 


Baying the moon, 829 


Betrayal, 1559, 2173 


Bay trees, 1662 


Better cheer, 2524 


Bear, 1526, 2413 


Better man, 769 


Beads, 2349 


Billiards, 1066 


Beards, 119, 475, 503, 638, 


Binding (see Bookbinding) 


902, 1770 


Biography, 181 1 


Bear-herd, 2214 


Bird, Birds, 248, 1208, 1653. 


Beasts, 1242, 1376, 1343 


1668, 201 1, 2443, 2482 (see 


Beauty, 70, 322, 350, 392, 453, 


Cock, Crow, Doves, Eagle, 


604, 612, 623, 630, 685, 693, 


Falcon, Geese, Goose, Kites, 


702, 910, 1007, 212, 2T3, 


Lark, Little birds, Nightin- 


214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 


gale, Owl, Peacock, Pelican, 


1228, 1298, 1310, 1326, 1378, 


Pigeons, Raven, Screech 


1519, 1523, 1681, 1719, 1767, 


Owls, Sparrow, Starling, 


1833, 1862, 2013, 2064, 2085, 


Summer birds, Swans, Sweet 


2086,2170, 2212, 2262, 2300, 


birds, Turtle doves, Wood- 


2326, 2327, 2415, 2563, 2623 


cocks, Wren) 


(see Cheeks, ( !oral lips, Ear, 


Birdlime, 248, 1669 


Eyes, Faces, Fingers, I lair, 


1 in (1 oi dawning, 1570 


Hand, Lips, Manly beauty, 


Birth, 1368, 2069 


Mouth, Nails, Rich eyes, 


Birthday, 2602 


Rosy lips, Woman, &c.) 


Bird of night, 1667 


Beauty, moral, 588 


Bishop of Ely, 1207 



204 


Index. 


Biting, 1091 




Boats, 448, 789, 1071, 1398 


Bitter bread of banishment, 


Body, 2299 


378 




Body and mind, 2362 


Bitter food, T707 




Boldness, 48, 253, 1916, 2213 


Bitterness, 694 




Bond,. 1023 


Bitter words, 883 




Bondage, 21 13 


Bitten apples, 1865 




Bondman, 385 


Black envy, 1243 




Bones, 137, 611, 1147, 1700, 


Blackest sin, 2342 




2062 


Black (mourning) 721 




Bones and tongs, 838 


Black villany, 1273 




Bonfires, 962, 1485 


Bladder, 144 




Book, Books, 112, 303, 341, 


Blanket, 787 




487, 662, 879, 1004, 1 104, 


Blasphemy, 1637 




1129,1197,1222, 1427, 1461, 


Blemish, 910 




1634, 2025, 2483, 2515, 2219 


Blemishes, 1468 




Book of fate, 1319 


Blessed day, 1978 




Books in the running brooks, 


Blessings, 12, 249, 1196, 


1274, 


121 


2048, 2573, 2574, 2575 




Bookbinding, 1634, 2219 


Blight, 2326 




Bootless grief, 2588 


Blind, 85 




Bootless labour, 164 


Blindness, 644 




Boots, 2569 


Blindness of love, 263, 


1105, 


Borrowing, 1080, 1231 


ino, 1113 




Bosom, 579, 1364, 2580 


Blind men, 1694 




Both your houses, 142 


Blind puppies, 371 




Bounty, 436, 2203 


Blister, 2650 




Bow, 1621 


Blood, Bloody, 181, 250 


, 262, 


Bower, 868, 2072 


273. 435. 6 o4. 73 8 > 


"37. 


Bowers, 1121 


1355. 1406, 1589, 163L 


1673, 


Bowels, 2054 


1674, 1675, 1827, 1876, 


1953. 


Bowl of wine, 418, 419, 477, 


1976, 2062, 2128, 2431, 


2489, 


2236 


2509 




Boys, 161, 257, 979, 1779 


Blood of Christ, 2552 




Boy's love, 628 


Blood of kings, 546 




Brabbler, 2244 


Blood of the grape, 533 




Brain, Brains, 876, 859, 1183, 


Blood-shedding, 1871 




1198, 1333, 1675 


Bloody turbulence, 845 




Brain-sick men, 515 


Bloody work, 952 




Brass, 1159 


Blossom, 466 




Brass, tablets of, 981 


Blow {see Wind) 




Brass, tombs of, 2035 


Blue, 988 




Brave mind, 1858 


Bluntness, 1988 




Brazen din, 2171 


Blunt wedges, 2550 




Brazen pipe, 2043 


Blush, Blushing, 247, 138 


1 


Breach of custom, 1590 


Boards, 1527 




Bread, 377, 378, 1353 


Boar, 2125 




Breakfast, 379 


Boars, 379 




Breaking of ribs, 964 


Boasting, 1244 




Breaking-up of school, 1073 



Index. 205 


Breast, 1543, 2677 


Ccesar, 270, 787, 891, 893, 1282, 


Breast-plate, 2328 


1635, 2340, 2352 


Breath, 925, 2302, 2475, 2493, 


Ccp.sar s commentaries, 1006 


2531 


Caged nightingales, 2451 


Breathed stags, 2066 


Cain, '262., 2460 


Breath of kings, 1600 


Cakes, 564, 654, 1297 


Breeder, 2672 


Cakes and ale, 360 


Brevity, 256, 982, 2088 


Calamity, 18, 747 


Brewer's horse, 133 


Calculation of time (see Can- 


Briars, 1911, 2434, 2595 


dles, Dial, Stars, Sun, Time) 


Bribery, 509, 571, 1012, 2022 


Calendar, 3, 1061, 2290 


Bridge, 2310 


Calm, 2599 


Brief chronicle, 1501 


Calumny, 225, 235, 281, 1882 


Brier, 1024 


Cambria, 899 


Brine, 2038 


Cameleon, 2027 


Britain, 557 


Camomile, 1677 


Broadsides, 413 


Camp, 439 


Broken hearts, 1152, 1219, 


Candles, 697, 1239, 1843 


1726, 2143 


Candle-holder, 870 


Broken limb, 141 1 


Canker, 206, 630, 1678, 1081 


Broken weapons, 1151 


Cannon's mouth, 1770 


Broker, 2536 


Capers, 2168 


Brook, 1550 


Capitol, 2492 


Brotherhood, 102 


Capon, 119 


Brothers, 1085, 2237 


Captain, 564, 1637 


Brother's guard, 2374 


Captain's captain, 2398 


Brow, 2483 


Captivity, 385 


Bruised heart, 2473 


Car, 2501 


Brutish beasts, 1343 


Carcase, 1046 


Brutus, 258, 736, 743, 1448, 


Card, Speaking by the, 2260 


i 6 35 


Cardinal, 1679 


Bubble reputation, 1770 


Care, 288, 289, 1553, 2023, 


Bubbles, 1697 


2304, 2329, 2332, 2453 


Buckingham, 66 7 


Careless livery, 2534 


Buds 108 1, 1487, 2409 


Carpet, 988 


Bulls, 2218 


Carraways, 2273 


I juried, the, 211 


( 'anion, 2107 


Burn, 793 


Carve, 1046 


ii, 1605, 1669, 1907, 2579 


Casement, 1131 


Busied about decrees, 177 


Cassius, 477, 1769, 2488 


Business, 2005, 2557 


tie, 1979 


Busy day, 1676 


( 'at, Cats, 371, 730, 1021, 1079, 


But :hers, 1064, 2400 


1768, 2329 


Butterflies, 1 [55, 1810 


Caucasus, 1339 


Buttock of the night, 1369 


( lautelous, 1609 


Button on fortune's cap, 2229 


Caution, 233, 1609, 2008 


" But get," 776 


( 'avian-, i/83 




lar, 1680 


Cabin 'd, 732 


( lelerity, 292 



Celestial Dian, 293 
Celestial harmony, 290 
Censure, 1253, 1622 
Ceremony, 294, 407, 1130, 

1299, 1658, 1864, 2354. 
Chaos, 1437, 2351 
Chaff, 2265 
Chairs of justice, 1737 
Chalice, 1981 
Champion, 175 
Chance, 544, 1818 
Changes of the moon, 1973 
Changing woman, 1471 
Chapels, 820, 1382 
Chapmen, 2495 
Chariest maid, 1681 
Charing Cross, 835 
Charitable war, 1786 
Charity, 137, 590, 1171, 2101, 

2573 
Charnel-houses, 788 
Charter'd libertine, 2348 
Chase, 843 
Chaste, 235 
Chastity, 345 
Chastizement, 1769 
Chat, 1255, 1431 
Cheap pennyworths, 1440 
Checkered shadow, 1668 
Cheeks, 247, 252, 462, 1497, 
1520, 1867, 1930, 2201 

Cheek of night, 612 

Cheese, 1855 

Cheer, 1545 

Cheer of mind, 853 

Chewing the cud, 296 

Chiding, 722, 759, 888 

Child, 541,712, 722, 908, 1580, 
2r66 

Childhood, 138, 253, 1779 

Childish fear, 297 

Childish weakness, 2282 

Children, 978, 1585, 1682 

Chimes at midnight, 2241 

Chimneys, 2383 

Chinks, 633 

Choking, 2462 

Choleric age, 2258 

Choleric word, 1637 



Christ, 2051 

Christ's blood, 2552 

Christendom, 949, 2051 

Christian, 534 

Christian souls, 501 

Christmas, 1570 

Chronicle, 2589 

Chronicle of the time, 1501 

Church, Churches, 133, 820, 

837, 1842 
Churchman, 1101 
Cincture, 1281 
Circle in the water, 494 
Civil dissension, 298 
Civil wounds, 2625 
Civet, 480 
Citizens, 1683 
City, 923 
City feast, 1130 
Clamours, 1921 
Clapper, 2587 
Clapping and hissing, 816 
Clasps, 1634 
Clay, 299, 893 
Clemency, 451 
Cleopatra, 555 
Clients, 511 
Cliff, 876, 1809 
Clifford, 470 
Climate, 1672, 1684 
Climbing, 2482 
Climbing steep hills, 2121 
Cloak, 1281, 2341 
Clock, 2238 
Cloth, 361, 1996 
Clothes, 1805, 2052, 2596 {set 

Apparel, Coat, Costume, 

Dress, Foreskirt, Furred 

Gowns, Hoods, Robes, 

Train) 
Clouds, 99, 286, 300, 386, 1240, 

1765, 1977, 2060, 2061, 2341, 

2487 
Clowns, 1062 
Cloyless sauce, 380 
Coal, 793, 2490 
Coat, 361 
Cock [see Bird of dawning, 

Village cock) 



Index. 207 


Cockcrow at Christmas, 1570 


Conserves, 2449 


Coin, 2343, 2693 


Consolation, 1807 


Cold, 301 


Conspiracy, 934, 1301, 1796, 


Coldness, 372, 1303 


2021 


Cold blood, 1876, 2062 


Construction, 2614 


Cold breath, 2475 


Consumption of the purse, 758 


Cold decree, 1675 


Contagious blastments, 2605 


Cold scent, 2528 


Contempt, 106, 1230, 1418, 


Cold ways, 2008 


1629, 2312, 2422, 2480 


Colloquintida, 1707 


Contending kings, 2079 


Colossus, 581 


Content, 408, 652, 766, 768, 


Columbines, 1841 


947, 1200, 1270, 1403, 1447, 


Cook, 2083 


1602, 1834, 1897, 2002, 2370, 


Cooling wind, 1668 


2422, 2596 


Comb (see Honey-comb) 


Conversation, 1183, 1303 


Comets, 311, 2339 


Cophctua, King, 2508 


Comfort, 274, 325, 1279, 1313, 


Coral lips, 925 


1698, 1732 


Cordelia, 399 


Comforter, 1544 


Coriolanus, 1688 


Comfortless despair, 1618 


Corioli, 824 


Command, 2340 


Corn, 1404, 2265 


Commentaries, Ccesar's, 1006 


Corpse, 1022 (see Death, Fu- 


Commerce, 322 


neral) 


Commonwealth, 298, 2538 


Corrupted currents, 2603 


Common worldly things, 2601 


Corruption, 571, 846, 1012, 


Company, 313, 598,600, 1034, 


1386, 1769, 2554 


1197, 1492, 2520 


Cost, 1586 


Comparisons, 314 


Costermonger times, 2214 


Compelling occasion, 2188 


Costume, 321, 1514, 2314 


Compliment, 315, 2183 


Cottage, 1873 


Composition, 771 


Cottages, 820 


Comrade, 356 


Couch of war, 1918 


Concave, 780 


Council, the king's, 1745 


Concealment, 2000 


Counsel, 166, 324, 1332, 1958 


Concord, 1756 


(see Secresy) 


Conference, 1291 


Counsel in the law, 101, 2274 


Conference harsh, 1047 


Countenance, 7 


Confession, 1484, 2553 


( lounterfeit, 2182 


Confin'd, 732 


Countries (see Afric, Africa, 


Confidence, 1212, 1916 


Arabia, Britain, Cambria, 


Confusion, 1956, 2344, 2687 


Crete, Denmark, England. 


Conjectures, 1489 


France, Italy, Rome, Russia, 


Conquer, 154 


Spain, Wales) 


Conqueror, 192, 335 


Country manners, 1405 


Conquests, 151, 335, 558, 2669 


Countrymen, 1419 


Conscience, 141, 239, 318, 319, 


Country's fat, 2597 


320, 416, 1 157, 1 182, 1 199, 


Courage, 325, 326, 495, 750, 


1302, 1565, 1907, 1962, 2047, 


803, 1968, 2169 2213, 2305, 


2097, 2429, 2558 


2540 



Course, race, 2446 
Course of justice, 2056 
Courser 985 (see Horse) 
Court, 113, 1873, 2617 
Courtesy, 228, 859, 913, 1405 
Courtier, 1654, 1685 
Courtship, 312, 1642, 2452 {see 

Wooing) 
Cousin, 512, 948 
Covenants, legal, 1048 
Coventry, 880 
Covetousness, 2371 
Cowards, 143, 319, 3 2 °> 3 28 > 

329, 455, 1025, 1079, 1446, 

1609 
' Cowardice, 280, 395, 558, 750, 

912, 1302, 1727, 1768, 2125, 

2479. 2 5 2 9 
Cowslips, 1924 
Crabbed age, 330 
Crack of doom, 2335 
Craft, 584, 2388 
Crafty knave, 2536 
Crazy age, 2272 
Creaking of shoes, 1040 
Cream, 730, 1800 
Creation, 1767 
Creditor, 2261 
Credulity, 1764 
Credulous, 1325 
Crestfallen, 1510 
Crete, 2443 
Cribb'd, 732 
Crimes, 179, 1416, 2025 
Criminal, 1605 
Criticism, 1569 
Crocodile, 813 
Crow, 1072 
Crows, 1676 
Crown, i2oo, 1245, 1699, 2190, 

2464 
Crowns, 259, 331 
Cruel striking, 2640 
Cruelty, 895, 1442, 2195 
Crutch, 2674 
Cry of curs, 2493 
Cunning, 1338, 2080 
Cups, 621, 1778 
Cupid, 103, 1992, 2429 



Cupid's arrow, 2641 

Cup of sack, 478, 2450 

Cup of wine, 302 

Curb, 2202 

Curiosity, 897 

Current, 1686, 2603 

Curs, 1546, 2493 

Curse, Curses, 145, 1020, 1144, 

I39 6 - T 397 
Cursed spite, 1908 
Cursed thoughts, 1167 
Cursing, 1275 
Curse of God, 827 
Curtain'd sleep, 1286 
Curtains, 1579 
Curtsy, 1238 
Customers, 592 
Custom, 951, 1590, 1918 
Cut, 2003 
Cut loaf, 377 
Cutpurse, 2127 
Cymbals, 1913 
Cymbeline, 332 

Daggers, 2382 

Daily beauty, 588 

Dainty bits, 410 

Dainty dish, 180 

Daisy, 1841 

Damask cheek, 1520 

Damnable faces, 224 

Damnation, 318, 2634 

Damn'd paper, 1305 

Dance, 151 1 

Dancing, 266, 962, 1524, 1954, 

2373. 2386 
Dane, 2514 

Danger, 495, 1136, 1417, 1796 
Daring, 772, 1424 
Darkness, 262, 800, 1279, 1824, 

1885 
Darkness, Prince of, 1793 
Darling (see Minion) 
Darling buds, 1487 
Dates and quinces, 1945 
Daughter, Jephtha's, 2131 
Dauphin, 1599 
Daw, 260 
Dawn, 2487 (see Daybreak) 



Index. 209 


Dawning, bird of, 1570 


Deceitful thoughts, 1871 


Da y. 95- 3° 8 . 557. 721, 7 6 3> 


Deceivers, 1533 


963, 1037, 1239, 1245, 1283, 


Declamation, 2255 (see Elo- 


1528, 1580, 1676, 1775, *97 8 . 


quence) 


2123, 2151, 2290 (see Holy 


Decrees, 177, 1675, 2509 


day, Wicked day) 


Dedalus, 2443 


Day and night, 1306 


Deeds, 955, 1245, 2175, 2475, 


Daybreak, 132, 695, 1087, 1239, 


2673 


1240, 1687, 1766, 1885, 1977, 


Deeds of men, 593 


2487 


Deep brooks, 1550 


Daylight, 837 


Deep of night, 1689 


Days of love, 1000 


Deep malice, 342 


Days (see Merry days) 


Deep tragedian, 2182 


Dead, the, 211, 239, 262, 


Deep, vasty, 756 


1177, 1719, 1887, 2155, 


Deer, 1904 


2674 


Defiled, 1959 


Dead carcases, 2493 


Deformity, 910, 1464 


Dead carrion, 2107 


Degeneracy of the age, 1654 


Dead fleece, 1719 


Delay, 346, 347, 372, 412, 


Deadman's nose, 2528 


1648, 1706, 2005 


Dearth, 2679 


Deliciousness, 1901 


Death, 9, 10, 46, 55, 76, 86, 


Delight, 1619, 1747, 1804, 2120, 


no, 177, 239, 240, 250, 


2309 


261, 265, 270, 277, 282, 299, 


Delightful, pleasing harmony, 


3 2 9> 333. 334. 335. 336, 337. 


73 1 


338, 339. 34o, 359. 47i. 544. 


Delights, 1879, 2423 


6 35> 639. 661, 681, 708, 784, 


Denial, 795 


786, 800, 805, 817, 893, 909, 


Denmark, 1572, 1846 


iooi, 1032, 1054, 1058, 1083, 


Deo volente, 791 


1091, 1152, 1179, 1188, 1289, 


Dependants, 1665 


1340. i34i. 1370, 1507. 1521, 


Depravity, 1228 


1639, 1647, 1700, 1748, 1785, 


Desert, 2517, 2527 


1806, 1818, 1827, 1842, 1875, 


Desert air, 860 


1887, 1899, 1932, 1941, 1982, 


Deserving, 591, 1475, 2203, 2275 


2001, 2040, 2084, 2090, 2092, 


Desire, 1270 


2111, 2122, 2136, 2143, 2170, 


Desolation, 348, 457 


2188, 2209, 2232, 2235, 2270, 


Despair, 351, 932, 980, 1279, 


2 3 l8 - 2 339- 2440,2445, 2464. 


1416, 1530, 1618, 2403 


2478. 2555. 2566, 2586, 2590, 


Desperate diseases, 353 


2645, 2 ' J 47 1 u ' r Funeral) 


Desperate men, 1330 


Death's counterfeit, 1507 


1 destruction, 333, 2106 


Death's head, 1435 


Detraction, 549 


Debt, 207, 559, 2590, 2601 


I )eviee, 185 


■>'■ 39°. 4°°. J 66i 


Devil, 491,507,608, 1106, 1249, 


!\- of love, 2354 


1335, 1624, 1632, 1679, 1690, 


Deceit, 388, 404, 992, 1162, 


[691, 1793, 2202, 2212, 2342, 


Tl6 4. x 559- I 57 I . i6l 7. J73 r . 


2461, 267I 


1764, J<y;s8, 2025, 2173, 2382, 


1 >evotion's visage, 2461 


2425, 2635 


Devout men, 23.19 

r 



2 i o Itidcx. 


Dew, 462, 1663, 1735, 1766, 


Divinity, 1818, 1837, 1859 


1797, 2363 


Doctor, 277 


Dew of youth, 2605 


Dog, Dogs, 8, 11, 173,195, 282, 


Dew (tears), 1035 


328, 440, 587, 680, 829, 843, 


Dews of flattery, 663 


994, 1021, 1171, 1546, 1910, 


Dial, 2017, 2064 


2053, 2066, 2512, 2676 (see 


Dialect, 584 


Hounds, Ban dog) 


Diamond, 2133 


Dog-apes, 315 


Diana, 293 


Doing good, 903, 918, 1099, 


Dice, 1004 


2225 


Dicers' oaths, 2649 


Doing harm, 918 


Die, hazard of the, 856 


Dole, 1285 


Die, to, 2143 (see Death) 


Doll, 1435 


Diet, 2521 


Dooers, 1627 


Digestion, 31, 1280, 2194 


Doom, 2335 


Dignities, 141 


Doomsday, 359 


Dinner, 896, 2239, 2336 


Dotage, 73, 1896 


Direct and honest, 21 15 


11 Do this," 2340 


Disappointment, 1314, 1902, 


Double death, 2092 


1970, 2366 


Doubt, 364, 1760, 1407, 2692 


Discarded faith, 2197 


Doubtful joy, 2106 


Discipline, 1358 


Doubtful strife, 1027 


Discomfort, 351 


Dovecote, 824 


Discontent, 112, 1834, 2323 


Doves, 365, 2045, 2421 


Discord, 452, 1216, 2359 


Dower, 1918 


Discourse, 246, 352, 1525 


Downfall, 1724 


Discretion, 327, 1050, 1135, 


Down pillow, 2226 


1666, 2255, 2324, 2616 


Downy east, 1935 


Disease, Diseases, 168, 284, 


Downy sleep, 1507 


353, 1082, 2008 (see Ague, 


Draff, 2104 


Apoplexy, Plague) 


Dragons, 1240 


Disguise, 999 


Dragon-wing of night, 1692 


Dish, 180, 1046 


Dreadful bell, 1535 


Dish for a king, 150 


Dreams, 13, 162, 242, 369, 723, 


Dish of carraways, 2273 


741, 783, 784, 789, 799, 845, 


Dismal ihinkings, 754 


924, 941, 995, 1043, Il6 7. 


Dismay, 1216 


1286, 1923, 1975, 1990, 2029, 


Disordered speech, 676 


2148, 2160, 2231 


Display, 2435 


Dregs of conscience, 1565 


Disputable, 600 


Dress, 321, 660, 1514, 1657, 


Dissension, 298 


2314, 2419, 2435, 2534 


Distracted thoughts, 1218 


Apparel, Costume, Fore- 


Distress, 825, 1660 


skirt, Furred gowns, Gowns, 


Distribution of wealth, 354 


Hoods, Robes, Sables, Train) 


Distrust, 1042 


Dried cakes, 564 


Ditchers, 1823 


Drink, Drinking, 139, 171, 360, 


Ditties, 2072 


387, 481, 620', 739, 859, 874, 


Ditty, 226 


989. x 333. J 335. IS". l6 44. 


Divine, 953, 1182 


2236, 2514 {see Ale, Cup, 



Index. 211 


Liquor, Quaffing, Tavern, 


Earthly dignities, 141 


Wine) 


Earthly honour, 2200 


Drink deep, 2256 


Earthquakes, n 87 


Drinking health, 621, 2159 


Earth's gods, 1008 


Drones, 370 


Ease, 1509, 1655 


Drooping thoughts, 1870 


East, the, 1087, 1579, 1885, 1935 


Drop of water, 2608 


(see Daybreak, Sunrise) 


Drowning, 371, 467, 585, 1932, 


Eastern clouds, 1725 


1982, 2443 


Eastern hill, 1766 


Drowsy man, 1069 


Eating, 1262, 2294 


Drugs, 1399 


Echoes, 1488, 2067 


Drums, 1868 


Eclipses, 300, 1872 


Drums and trumpets, 1583 


Economy, 1843 


Drunkenness, 387, 620, 739, i 


Ecstasy,. 239, 1991 


1333. 1335. 1644, 2514 


Education, 978 


Dry death, 1932 


Eel, 1378 


Dukedom, 1206 


Effeminate man, 198 


Duke's revenues, 1514 


Eggs, 765 


Duke, the, 2059 


Egress and regress, 2039 


Dulcet sound, 1462 


Egyptian bacchanals, 151 1 


Dull fighter, 2150 


Egyptian fetters, 1896 


Dull melancholy, 1618 


Eighteen, 577 


Dull unwillingness, 2601 


Election, 586 


Dulness, 1693 


Elements, 942, 1347, 1698 


Dumb, 1433 


Elizabeth, Queen, 2547 


Dumb men, 1694 


Elocution, 2255 


Dungeon, 831 


Eloquence, 736, 915, 917, 1588, 


Dust, 299, 2445 


1884, 2059, 2348, 2657 


Dusty death, 71 


Eloquent music, 2448 


Duty, 374, 423, 779, 917, 1234, 


Ely, Bishop of, 1207 


1432, 1877, 2234, 2573 


Ely Place, Holborn, 1207 


Dwarf, 174 


Embrace, 381, 396, 800, 1019, 


Dying breast, 2677 


1028, 1029, 2076, 2128 


Dying lion, 2087 


Emperor, 2521 




Empire, 1045 


Eager feeding, 2462 


Empoison, 1354 


Eagle 85, 824, 1313, 1695, 1937 


Empty vessel, 2651 


Ear, Ears, 47, 53, 98, ioo, 246, 


Enchantingly beloved, 2626 


2 79- 4*5. 4 l6 > 47 6 > 6l2 . 7 T 3. 


End, the, 1052, 1699 


8 3 8 . 8 55. 9*5- 97 1 - '"'' < 


Endeavours, 2622 


1 170, 1332, 1373, 1441, 1495, 


Endurance, 561, 601, 1156, 


[694, [97 \, 2018, 2127, 2171, 


i860, 2142, 2283, 2456, 2457 


2416, 2494 


Enemies, 834, 1055, 1198, 1396, 


Ear of grief, 684 


1 790, 2132, 2637, 2694 


Early marriage, 2510 


Enemy, 185, 446, 48b, 868 


Early rising, 2120 


Enemy's dog, 1 171 


70, 813, 1692, 


Engineer, 1026 


[6 -7, [78 |, l802, 2067, 2248, 


ind, 1 ". |, 969, 1 -27 r , 1371, 


2445 


2S56, i5 ( >7 



2 I 2 Index. 


England's treasure, 817 


Expedition, 804, 1229, 1774 


English ditty, 226 


Experience, 393, 394, 679, 833, 


Englishman, 777, 2514 


2IOO, 2157 


English nation, 967 


Exquisite song, 2437 


English speech, 2636 


Extempore, 2320 


English warriors, 1599 


Extenuate,' 1266 


Enjoyment, 81, 1651, 1902, 


Extravagance, 388, 758, 1272 


1972 


Extravagance in dress, 1514 


Enmity, 471, jjj 


Eyes, 85, 119, 165, 213, 215, 


Enterprise, 991 


247, 283, 238, 308, 396, 453, 


Entertainment, 859 


454, 560, 837, 915, 923, 927, 


Envy, 694, 1243, 1260, 2344, 


979, 1042, 1086, 11 13. 1 129, 


2596, 2687 


1160, 1230, 1365, 1375, 1378, 


Epicurean cooks, 380 


1461, 1463, 1525, 1543, 1630, 


Epitaph, 2068 


1659, 1685, 1694, 2062, 2127, 


Equality, 354 


2149, 2174, 2271, 2276, 2327, 


Equality in death, 893 (see 


2332, 2385, 2485, 2511, 2518, 


Death) 


2675 


Equal justice, 1002 


Eyebrow, 120 


Equivocation, 755, 2260 


Eye-lids, 117, 2426 


Errors, 1149, 1209 


Eye of rebellion, 2197 


Escapes, 2078 


Eyesight, 644 


Esperance, 21 19 




Eschew'd, 2283 


Fables, 1016 


Eternal summer, 2063 


Face, Faces, 1779, 1822, 1833, 


Eternity, 76, 656, 2017, 20^0, 


1847, 1905, 1930, 2025, 2327, 


2393 


2483, 2515. 2563. 2697 


Ethiop's ear, 612 


Faces, painted, 2086 


Even-handed justice, 1981 


Faction, 1746 


Eve s apple, 702 


Faded flowers, 1612 


Eve's legacy, 1460 


Fading glimmer, 2485 


Evening, 715, 933, 1072 


Faint deeds, 294 


Evil, 1249, 1700, 1831 


Faint heart, 397, 553 


Evil angel, 1106 


Fainting, 1137 


Evil life, 46 


Fair, the, 1542 


Evil manners, 1159 


Fair assembly, 516 


Evil words, 873 


Fairest show, 2406 


Example and precept, 757 


Fair ground, 1367 


Excess, 2126 


Fairies, 2160 


Excess of wine, 968 


Fair queen, 2072 


Excessive grief, 1177, 1190, 


Fair thoughts, 402 


1256 


Fair woman, 1822, 1833 


Exchequer of the poor, 334 


Faith, 1426, 1803, I ^49» 2197 


Excuses, 114 


(see Truth) 


Execution, 1058 


Faithful friends, 403 


Exhalation, 933 


Falcon, 16 


Exile, 52, 177, 1058 


Fall, 1419 


Expectancy, 1701 


Falling man, 1459 


Expectation, 1314, 1463 


False, Falsehood, 160, 405, 8r2, 



Index. 2 t 3 


1164, 1228, 1337, 1338, 1538, 


1407, 1480, 1727, 1752, 1760, 


1635, 1764,2079, 2151, 2418, 


1907, 2110, 2119,2124, 2125, 


2635 


2187, 2282, 2169, 2326, 2479, 


False eyes, 1375 


2692 


False face, 404 


Fearful duty, 917 


False hair, 1719 


Fearlessness, 227 


False heart, 404 


Fear of death, 1639, 1875 


False quarrel, 898 


Fear of God, 21 n 


Falstaff, 1538 


Fears, 1457, 2356 


Fame, 221, 335, 605, 1180, 1223, 


Feast, 651, 1130, 1146, 1356, 


1224, 1236, 1252, 1260, 1700, 


x 45 6 > I S45. IQ 97> 2I 5°- 2 4 10 > 


1754. 1755. 1842, 2035, 2063, 


2458 


2137, 2479, 2527, 2531, 2688 


Feast of languages, 1948 


(see Reputation) 


Feasting, 414, 852, 1003, 1820, 


Familiar, 1778 


Feasts, 34 


Familiar creature, 531 


Feathers, 231, 423, 724, 748, 


Familiarity, 236 


2220, 2300, 2504 


Famishing, 632 


Feats, 1631 


Fancy, 741 


Feature, 597 


Farewell, 406,407, 408,409,488, 


Feeble, the, 2101 


1620, 1698, 1748, 2046, 2247 


Feeble temper, 2484 


Fashion, 1232, 1344, 1658,1701, 


Feigning, 2183 


1702, 2023, 2658 


Felicity, 790 


Fashion, glass of, 660, 662 


Felling oaks, 109, 634 


Fashionable host, 2076 


Fellow, 191, 1982, 1983, 1984, 


Fast bind, fast find, 1532 


1988 


Fasting, 352 


Fellow, wise. 659 


Fasting days, 2252 


Fellows, old, 1876 


Fat, 819, 2521 


Fellows, strange, 1226 


Fate, 877, ti 50, 1 172, 1 178, 


Female government, 1641 


1319, 1967, 2280, 2287, 2297, 


Female (see Woman) 


2396, 2632 


Fennel, 1841 


Father, 467, 1169, 1201, 1274, 


Fens, 2493 


1510, 2002, 2523 


Fern -seed, 2243 


Fatigue, 655, 2226, 2375 


Fertile, 1684 


Fat men, 1030, 2488 


Festival, 1978 


Fat paunches, 410 


Festivity, 220 


Fat sheep, 524 


Fever, 533 


Fattest soil, n86 


Few days wonder, 1S69 


Faults, 17, 22, 64, 91, 114, 317, 


Fickleness, 24O3 


629, 677, 782, 795, 1 161, 


Ficklenc bs <>i Fortune, 727 


1416, 1422, 1952, 2025, 2037, 


Fidelity, 2130 (see Friendship, 


2233, 2640, 3647 


Truth) 


Favour, 634, 2108 


Field of Agincourt, 1771 


Favourites, 538, 1328, 1724 


Fields, 1738 


law iiin", 


Fiend, Fiends, 100, 413, 755, 


Fear, 23, 233, 248, 297, 


908, 1464, i' is 1 


4". 4". P ). 5SP. 558, 639, 


Fierce hand, 2.^74 


7 2 3. 94^1 104a, io.[ |, 13^7, 


Fiery expedition, 1774 



2 1 4 Index. 


Fiery-footed steeds, 472 


Fleece, 1719 


Fiery gulf, 868 


Fleece, golden, 623 


Fiery Pegasus, 2154 


Fleetness, 2066 


Fifes, 1913 


Fleet-wing'd duty, 423 


Fight, 1288, 1792 


Flesh, 851, 1309, 2252 


Fight and conquer, 154 


Flies, 161 


Fignt, gentlemen of England, 


Flight, 231, 827 (see Speed, 


4i7 


Swiftness) 


Fighter, 2150 


Flights of angels, 1277 


Fighting, 2263, 2597, 2655 (see 


Flighty purpose, 1706 


War, Warfare) 


Flint, 578, 2226 


Figs, 887 


Flinty, 1918 


Figure, the, 2686 


Flood, Floods, 537, 1815, 2310 


Filial love, 1300 


Flood of mutiny, 514 


Finger and thumb, 849 


Flourish, 2152 


Finger-nails, 323 


Flower, Flowers, 334, 400, 


Fingers, 1703, 2083 


988, 1248, 1417, 1612, 1836, 


Fins of lead, 634 


1841, 1857, 1897, 1924, 2198, 


Fire, 23, 61, 159, 343, 413, 578, 


2330, 2350, 2469 (see Rose, 


736, 1 109, 1252, 1312, 1339, 


Oxlips, Violets, Wild Thyme) 


1548, 1716, 1762, 1886, 2211, 


Flowing cups, 1778 


2490, 2562, 2652, 2670 


Flutes, 1868 


Fire of life. 336 


Fly, 844 


Fires of hell, 1704 


Folly, 20, 53, iit, 158, 238, 


Firmness of will. 397 


263- 3 2 7. 382, 425. 427. 469. 


First-born Cain, 262 


657, 701, 726, 863, 1357, 


Firstlings of the heart and hand , 


1398, 1656, 1708, 2233 


465 


Food, 352, 379, 632, 1130, 


First sight, 2399 


1132, 1262, 1282, 1401, 1414, 


Fish, 616, 2252, 2388 (see Eel, 


1540. 1552, 1573, 1707, 2027, 


Herring, Minnows, Oyster, 


2273, 2294, 2434, 2462 (see 


Pilchards, Salmon, Tench) 


Bacon, Banquet, Bread, 


Usher, 1246 


Cheese, Dinner, Dish, Eggs, 


Fishified, 1309 


Feast, Flap-jacks, Flesh, 


Fishing, 619 


Loaf, Luscious food, Meals, 


Fish-like smell, 189 


Meat, Milk, Pancake, Peas, 


Five hundred years, 1994 


Puddings, Pulse, Small cheer, 


Fixed stars, 1662, 1886 


Stomachs, Supper, Venison, 


Flaming minister, 802 


Viands, Victuals) 


Flap-jacks, 2252 


Food for powder, 426 


Flat blasphemy, 1637 


Food of love, 808 


Flat perjury, 2438 


Fool, Fools, 71, 184, 238, 425, 


Flattery, 422, 580, 582, 646, 


428, 429, 657, 703, 833, 863, 


653. 663, 672, 855, 868, 980, 


928, 979, 1096, 1244, 1294, 


1025, 1211, 1273, 1308, 1332, 


1345. 1357. 1374. 1471. t6 93. 


1808, 1819, 1961, 2352, 2433, 


1708, 1750, 1947, 1990. 2030, 


2563, 2623 


2046. 2061, 2233, 2288, 2444 


Flaying, 1058 


Foolery (see Folly) 


Fleas, 950 


.' Foolish banquet, 2240 



Index. 215 


Foolish man, 2301 


Fragrant, 1738 {see Perfume) 


Foolish song, 770 


Frailty, 458, 782, 851, 2223, 


Fool of Crete, 2443 


2469, 2470, 2471 


Fool's bolt, 20 


France, 460, 1978, 2.567 


Foot pads, 560 


Franklin, 1838 


Foppery, 1041 


Frankness, 949, 1162 


Forbearance, 601, 2565 


Fraud, 670, 2554 


Forced gait, 2098 


Fray, 2150 


Forced wedlock, 452 


Free breath, 2286 


Fords, 344 


Freedom, 1067 


Forehead, 2650 


French language, 1587, 1599 


Forehead of the morning, 1369 


Fretting, 583 


Foreign gore, 1355 


Friend at court, 21 


Forelock of time, 1049 


Friends, 101, 834, 1454, 1649, 


Foreskirt, Honour's, 2594 


1710 [see Friendship) 


Forest, 2397 


Friends in need, 645, 2313 


Forest bear, 2413 


Friendship, 1, 22, 65, 102, 280, 


Forget, 1 149 


294. 357. 3 88 - 403. 463. 553. 


Forget, forgive, 431 


748, 1099, 1649, 1656, 1710, 


Forget and forgive, 1453 


1752, 1819, 1958, 2018, 2128, 


Forgetfulness, 1346, 2130 


2313, 2343, 2408, 2694 


Forgive, 431, 433, 497, 567, 809 


Front, 1922 


Forgiveness, 2424, 2565 


Frost, 23, 334 


Form, 1 70 1 


Frosty Caucasus, 1339 


Formal vice iniquity, 2057 


Frosty head, 1426 


Fortitude, 383 


Froth, 533 


Fortress, 498 


Frowns, 169, 456 


Fortune, 35, 447, 448, 449, 450, 


Frowning night, 1725 


1 100, 1224, 1815, 1993, 2 °55. 


Fruit, 466, 1759, 1835, 1925, 


2T02, 2114, 2II9, 2345, 2549 


2273 {see Apples, Figs, Grape, 


Fortune's cap, 2229 


Nut, Pippins, Plum, Prunes, 


Fortune's fickleness, 727 


Strawberries) 


Fortune's minion, 1613 


Fruition {see Enjoyment) 


Fortune's pride, 1613 


Fry (young fish) 1246 


Fortune's wheel, 449 


Full-hot horse, 2545 


Fortune-telling, 2230 


Full-wing'd eagle, 1313 


Forty minutes, 882 


Fume of sighs, 1108 


Forty thousand lives, 1388 


Funerals, 1014, 1022, 1735, 


1 oster-nurse, 1408 


2181 


Foul deeds, 454 


Funeral urn, 1022, 2153 


Foul fiend, 1624 


Furlongs, 1413 


Foul-spoken coward, 455 


Furnace, 120, 566 


Foul tilings, 2380 


Furnace-burning heart, 764 


Foul thoughts, 1871 


Furred gowns, 2052 


Foul words, 456 


Furrow, 2019 


Foundation, 1827 


Fury, 273 


Fountain, 199, 1191, 1210, i486 


Future, the, 1385, 1395, 2246 


Founts in July, 2548 




Fox, 1709, 2163, 2360 


Gad of steel, 981 



2 1 6 Index. 


Gall, 2303, 2465 


! Glories, 151, 1513 


Galled jade, 1053 


Glorious days, 1449 


Gallows, 1878, 1982 


Glory, 63, 167, 494, 538, 546, 


Gambler, 1714 


1327, 1634, 2204 


Gamester, 1004 


Glo'ster, 495 


Gaming, 856, 1264 


Gloves, 592, 1 142, 1497 


Gammon of bacon, 835 


Glowworm, 17 16 


Gardeners, Gardening, Gar- 


Gnats, 2391 


dens, 327, 1207, 1295, 1401, 


Goats, 2218 


1823, 1928 


Goblet, 780 


Garland, jj, 2463 


God, 38, 103, 168, 269, 376, 


Garments, 611, 2419 


392, 434, 496, 497, 498, 499, 


Gashes, 1631 


500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 


Gate, 2404 


627, 640, 647, 656, 791, 809, 


Geese, 2529 


1037, 1279, 1318, 1352, 1606, 


General, 1711 


1987, 2in, 2145, 2245, 2478, 


General bosom, 579 


2491, 2571,2572, 2573, 2574, 


Generosity, 436, 2653 


2575.2576,2577, 2578,2581, 


Gentle air, 2682 


2604, 2625, 2631, 2655, 2667 


Gentleman, 597, 1024, 1536, 


God's enemy, 2655 


1712, 1793, l82 3. 1985. 2.S4 2 


Goddess Argentine, 293 


Gentleness, 28, 671, 871, 1713 


God of sleep, 117 


Gentle peace, 1592 


Gods, the, 161, 814, 892, 1008, 


Gentle sex, 1715 


1009, 1046, 1054, 1282, 1340, 


Gentle temper, 2599 


1429, 1560, 1672, 1713, 1717, 


Gentle verse, 2518 


1718, 1737, 2160, 2167, 2280, 


Gentler gambler, 1714 


2 355» 2361, 2405, 2484, 2496, 


Ghosts, 307, 609, 756, 884, 


2522, 2530 


1832, 1910, 2062, 2209 


Gods, the great, 1055 


Giant, 174, 1875 


Gold, 33, 75. 216, 445, 507, 


Giant's strength, 1336 


508,509,510,711, 841, 1443, 


Giddiness, 642 


1821, 1838, 2022, 2094, 2126, 


Gifts, 607, 148 1 


2435 


Gilded hand, 2603 


Gold and silver, 230 


Gilded monuments, 1251 


Gold clasps, 1634 


Gilding gold, 2126 


Golden fleece, 623 


Ginger, 835 


Golden fool, 1750 


Girdle, 882 


Golden gates, 1498 


Girl, 863 (see Wenches) 


Golden joys, 937 


Girls and boys, 257 


Golden letters, 2290 


Girls of Italy, 2009 


Golden mind, 30 


Giving vein, 745 


Golden opinions, 840 


Glass, 997, 1461, 1833, 2064, 


Golden sorrow, 939 


2 i33. 2 497, 2589 


Golden times, 123 


Glass eyes, 474 


Golden tresses, 1719 


Glass of fashion, 660, 662, 1701 


Good, 1700 


Glimmer, 2485 


Good accent, 2255 


Glistering grief, 939 


Good cause, 570, 2572 


Globe, 1754, 2379 


Good company, 665 



Index. 217 


Good counsellors, 511 


Gracious words, 1870 


Good days, 105 


Grafting, 2273 


Good deed, 697, 2673 


Grandsire, 2431 


Good digestion, 31, 1280 


Grape, 442 


Good discretion, 2255 


Grapes, 1905 


Good divine, 953 


Grapple, 1710 


Good grace, 597 


Grass, 1954, 2389 


Good heart, 32, 33 


Graha?io t 864 


Good in everything, 121 


Gratitude, 854, 1633 


Good intentions, 820, 94.8. 


Grave admonishments, 2065 


1249, 2227, 2346 


Grave, Graves, 788, 988, 1243, 


Good kings, 594 


1735, 1832, 1910, 1986, 2020, 


Goodly son, 2654 


2068, 2527 


Good meaning, 2227 


Gravel, 2548 


Good morrow, 516, 517 


Grave-makers, 1823 


Good name, 578, 637 


Grave senators, 191 8 


Goodnight, 50, 186, 488, 520, 


Gravity, 1674, 1723, 2285 


521, 522, 523, 1277 


Great alliance, 437 


Goodness, 519, 961, 1581, 


Great floods, 537 


1831, 2213, 2369, 2454 {see 


Great greatness, 1299 


Doing good, Virtue) 


Great hand of God, 2604 


Good news, 1773 


Great kings, 1238 


Good old Abraham, 1616 


Great losses, 383 


Good pasture, 524 


Great men, 1808 


Good people, 665, 2584 


Greatness, 1224, 1253, 1299, 


Good phrases, 525 


1311. 1375. i5 6 4> i65 2 > 1754, 


Good piece of work, 190 


1755 


Good reasons, 526 


Great observer, 593 


Good report, 890 


Great ones, 2289 


Good sentences, 527 


Great opinion, 2388 


Good things, 528 


Great princes, 538 


Good tongue, 2390 


Great verse, 2222 


Good welcome, 065 


Great weeds, 1547 


Good will, 2346 


Great welcome, 1545 


Good wine, 531, 665, 2579 


Green fruit, 1759 


Goodwin Sands, 1721 


Green (ignorant) 1215 


Good wits, 530, 2268 


Green in this old world, 698 


Good words, 532, 653, 955, 


( rreen leaves, 1668 


2683 


( ireensward, 1989 


Goose, 2607 


Greeting, 15, 1494, 2481 


Gore, 1355 


G rey {see Daybreak) 


( ios! amer, 84 


Grey-beards, 558 


Gossip, 1255, 2453 


( rrey-eyed morn, 1725 


Gowns, 2052 


< rreyhounds, 930, 2066 


Grace, 12, 54, 318, 535, 597, 


( il< V lilies, 2486 


i35°. i # 35 a i x 7 22 - ' 


Grief, 144, 291, 5.1 2, 543, 5 


( trace, ministers of, 120 


540, 541, 630, 684, 867,939, 


( irace before meat, 892 


954, 983, 10 1 9, 1 1 77 , 1 , 


( riaClOUS silence, 1202 


1254, 1522, 1575, 1726, 2166, 



2 1 8 Index. 


2206,2353, 2319, 2456, 2457, 


Happy mothers, 2510 


2478,2522,2582, 2588,2662, 


Happy news, 123 


2691 


Hard hand, 1858 


Grievous sins, 2552 


Hard hearts, 938 


Grim despair, 1618 


Hard knots, 2550 


Grinding wheat, 654 


Hare, 1673, 2699 


Grooms, 1449 


Hark! 551, 552 


Grub, 1810 


Harmony, 290, 715, 731, 1138, 


Guard, 2374 


^S, 1703. 2355, 2359 


Guests, 220, 867, 2076, 2150, 


Harp, 226 


2189 


Harts, 1904 


Guilt, 1203, 1727, 1331, 2646 


Harvest, 2141 


Guiltless hands, 1871 


Haste, 1229, 2276, 2455 


Guilty mind, 1605 


Hasty marriage, 556 


Gum, 1365, 1412 


Hasty spark, 578 


Gummed velvet, 583 


Hate, 1269, 2463 


Gunpowder, 426 


Hate's injury, 954 




Hatred, 274, 740, 932 


Habit, 717, 1964, 2202 


Haunch of winter, 201 1 


Habitation, 130 


Havens, 72 


Hailstone, 2490 


Hazard, 1165, 1398 


Hair, 623, 1719, 1845 


Hazard of the die, 856 


Hairs, silver, 675 


Head, 1406, 2299 (see Pate) 


Hairs, white, 701 


Head and front, 1922 


Half- blown rose, 13 10 


Head piece, 641 


Halfpennyworth of bread, 1353 


Healing, 2337 


Halter, 39 


Health, 258, 277, 285, 481, 


Hamlet, 481 


1280, 1401, 1807, 2159, 2575 


Hand, Hands, 78, 487, 590, 


Heart, Hearts, 69, 279, 670, 


1103, 1151, 1205, 1321, 1339, 


1205, 1219, 1277, 1288, 1364, 


1497. i59 2 ? J? 28 - I73 1 . 1821, 


1571, 1635, 1726, 1730, 1731, 


1858, 1871, 2076, 2127, 2374, 


1760, 2374, 251 1, 2540, 2580, 


2603, 2675 


2587, 2697 (see Faint heart, 


Hand of God, 2604 


Gcod heart, Hard hearts, 


Handkerchiefs, 1142 


Heavy heart, Jocund heart, 


Handsome, 1422 


Light heart, Merry heart, 


Handy dandy, 295 


Milky heart, Royal heart, 


Hanging, 87, 547, 564, 815, 


Sad heart, Valiant heart, 


1530, 1878, 1982 (see Gal- 


Vulgar heart) 


lows 


Heart of generosity, 2653 


Happiness, 63, 694, 805, 909, 


Heart of woman, 718 


J 35 6 . I 555, 222 9. 2 372, 2583, 


Heart untainted, 2328 


2596 


Heart's attorney, 461 


Happy days, 2575 


Heart's core, 485 


Happy few, 2237 


Heart's desire, 504 


Happy havens. 72 


Heart's ease, 2293 


Happy hours, 402, 1292 


Hearts of oak, 2317 


Happy king, 594 


Heat, 301 (see Fire) 


Happy monarchs, 550 


Heat of deeds, 2475 



Index. 219 


Heavy hand, 952 


Hisses, 1653 


Heavy heart, 40, 1204 


Hissing and clapping, 816 


Heavy husband, 59 


History, 181 1 


Heavy looks, 2279 


Hive, 1782 


Heaven, 160, 264, 274, 275, 


Holborn, 1207 


43o. 567. 569. 570. 57L 572, 


Holdfast, 680 


573- 574. 575. 57 6 > 65^. 670, 


Holiday humour, 312 


812, 827, 920, 1020, 1289, 


Holidays, 2252, 785 , 


1312, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1402, 


Hollow crown, 2464 


1638, 1662, 1663, 1722, 1732, 


Hollow earth, 2067 


*733. J 734. *75 8 - 1786, 1797. 


Hollow friend, 2694 


1802, 1843, 1955, 2327, 2347, 


Hollow welcomes, 294 


2 355. 2394. 2440, 2466, 2476, 


Holy day, 196, 1946 


2 553> 2585, 2593, 2633, 2644, 


Holy man, 2267 


2654, 2661, 2688, 2697, 2698 


Holy men, 681, 2349 


Heaven-bred poesy, 1189 


Holy water, 681 


Heavenly shows, 2342 


Holy writ, 2165 


Heavens, 197, 721, 1347 


Home, 2093 


Heaven's gate, 552 


Home-keeping youth, 683 


Hector, 1084 


Homely joys, 692 


Hector of Troy, 2012 


Homely subject, 2199 


Hecuba, 2321 


Homely wits, 683 


Heedlessness, 1358 


Honest, 2024 


Heel of the courtier, 1654 


Honest hand, 1321 


Heifer, 2400 


Honest man, 2503 


Heir, 1361 


Honest men, 1801 


Helen, 604 


Honest mirth, 720 


Hell, 39, 452, 1704 


Honest tale, 131 


Helm (helmet) 447 


Honesty, 322; 626, 685, 686, 


Help, 825 


899, 1247, 1720, 1764, 1984, 


Herald, 1022, 1774 


2115, 21 16, 2432, 2544 


Herald of joy, 1534 


Honey, 685, 1901, 2671 


Herald of die morn, 970 


Honeycomb, 2107 


Heraldry, 1731 


Honeydew, 462 


I Feralds, Love's, 11 17 


Honorable meed, 1033 


Herbs, 1350, 1547, 1677, 1735 


Honorable wife, 2489 


Hercules, 1021, 1201 


Honored gods 1737 


I [eritage, 1505 


Honour, 77, 99, 275, 446, 489, 


Herod of Jewry, 2277 


589, 626, 687, 688, 798, 865, 


1 [eroism, 2669 


1054, 1 172, 1269, 1386, 1438, 


I [errings, 428, 689 


1625, 1649, 1655, 1665, 1770, 


High birth, 2069 


21 I I, 2200, 2151, 2298, 2405, 


I ligh-reaching Buckingham y 


2407, 2432, 2688, 269O, 20oj 


<>(> 7 


I [onourable peace, 2620 


High tides, 2290 


Hon ur's Ion -skirt, 2594 


1 [ills, 2121 


1 [onotir's train, 2594 


I lind, 1736 


1 [oods, 67 


Hips. 2434 


I [ook- nosed fellow of Rome, 


I lired praise, 2369 


891 



220 Index. 


Hoops, 1710 


Hypocrisy, 1293 

* 


Hooting, 1667 




Hop-dance, 689 


I ago, 271 


Hope, 100, 690, 980, r?6l, 


Icarus, 2443 


1968, 21 19, 2167, 2577,2648 


Ice, 235, 2490, 2504 


Horatio, 6ci, 1802, 2050 


Ice-brook, 958 


Hornpipes, 1817 


Ides of March, 245, 1739 


Horrible imaginings, 1457 


Idle huswife, 305 


Horrors, 857 


Idleness, 1728 


Horse, Horses, 44, 133, 223, 


Idolatry, 265, 1039, 1606 


479, 628, 975, 985, 986, 992, 


If, 2516 


1053, 1322, 2026,2098, 2154, 


Ifs, 1628 


2 375- 2 545 ( see Courser, 


Ignominy, 2068 


Mare, Nag, Pegasus, Tired 


Ignorance, 753, 827, 1824, 


Horse) 


2089, 2254 


Horsemanship, 2154 


111 cook, 2083 


Hospitable canon, 2374 


111 deeds, 707, 873 


Hospitality. 1059, 1171, 2374, 


111 digestion, 2194 


(see Greeting, Welcome) 


111 news, 358 


PI est, 2076 


111 tidings, 2024 


Hot temper, 1675 


111 will/886 


Hot venison pasty, 2239 


111 wind, 872 


Hot wine, 739 


111 word, 1354 


Hounds, 8, 328, 1046, 2067 


Imagination, 480, 1591, 1664, 


Hours (see 'lime) 


1753, 1850, 2467 


House, 641 


Immortal gods. 892 


Household words, 1778 


Impatience, 1539, 2376 


House of tears, 2206 


Impatient child, 1580 


Howl, 1910 


Impatient fool, 2444 


Huge fires, 1548 


Imperfections, 1439 


Hulks, 107 1 


Impiety, 2131 


Hum, 1882 


Impossibility, 1968 


Human dealings, 1984 


Imprecations, 282, 1144 


Humanity, 152, 2223 (see 


Impudence, 607 


Death,' Life,\\Iortality) 


Impurity, 1257 


Human nature (see Man) 


Incomparable man, 2544 


Humiity, 911 


Increase, 464 


Humourous patrician, 739 


Indentures, 153, 2201 


Hunger, 632, 689 


Indignation, 2466 


Hunger's teeth, 1578 


Indiscretion, 73 


Hunt, 1738 


Indulgence, 179 


Hunting, 1757 


Industry, 393, 1900 


Hurry, 2455 


Ineffectual fire, 1716 


Husband, 197 


Inexperience, 1617 


Husbands, 428, 782. 846, 1138, 


Infancy, 2044 (see Childhood) 


(see Heavy husband) 


Infancy of truth, 729 


Husbandry, 1080, 1843 


Infants of the spring, 1678 


Huswife, 305 


Infant, the, 183 


Hype lion, 1556 


Infection, 1672 



Infectious house , 943 

Inferiors, 1665 

Infirm and choleric age, 2258 

Infirmity, 2291 

Ingenious, 253 

Ingratitude, 106, 240, 854,907, 
90S, 1876, 2601 

Inheritance, 2002 

Iniquity, 2057, 2384 

Injury, 444 

Injustice, 2047, 2082 

Ink, 1305, 2465 

Inn, 1509, 1929, 2336 

Innocence, 1617, 1645, 1884, 
1916, 2031 

Innocent love, 2650 

Innocents, 1566 

Inquisitiveness, 897 

Insane root, 2264 

Insects (seeBee, Beetle, Butter- 
fly, Drones, Grub, Spider) 

Inside of a church, 133 

Inspiration, 681 

Instinct, 912 

Instruments, 1197 

Instruments, musical (see Mu- 
sical instruments) 

Intemperance, 254, 360, 387, 
438, 585, 620, 739, 874, 878, 
1333. 1335. 1644 

Intentions (see Good inten- 
tions) 

Interment, 1700 

Interrogatories, 2286 

Intoxication, 387, 585, 620, 
739, 874, 878, 1333, 1335, 
[644 

Intruding fool, 2046 

Inventions, 1312, 1344 

Invisibility, 2243 

Inviting eve, 134 

Invocation, 13 1 5 

Iris, 2379 

Iron, 1595 

Iron tongue, 1740 

Iron-witted fools, 979 

Isle, 1535, 1684 

Italian priest, 2624 
Italy, girls of, 2009 



Jack, 1536 

Jade, the galled, 1053 

jangling, 530 

Jay, 2300 

Jealous queen of heaven, 1276 

Jealous woman, 1921 

Jealousy, 244,703, 1489. 1503, 
1973, 2165, 2378, 2646 

Jephthah, 1342 

J ephthah' s oath, 2131 

Jerusalem, 1574 

Jests, 47, 56, 603, 973.. 2146, 

Jester, 701 

Jesters, 998 

Jewels, 48, 83, 167, 373, 518, 
612, 1741, 2140 

Jewry, 2277 

Joan, 1567 

Job, 728 

jocund day, 1239 

Jocund heart, 924 

Journal course, 1590 

Journey, 1283 

Jove, 147, 187, 672, 999, 1742 

Jove's Mercury, 1774. 

Joy, Joys, 63, 123, 614, 692, 
705, 741, 792, 937, 1000, 
1019, 1534. 1553. 1574. 2353, 
2582, 2619, 2662, 2691. 

Joyful news, 799 

Joyful tears, 1631 

Judas, 1559 

Judge, 571 

Judges, 2664 

judgment, 809, 1343, 1622 
[uggling fiends, 100 

'Juliet, 268 

Jupiter, 276 

just-disposing God, 2631 

Justice, 103, 116, 227, 376, 814, 
1002, 1003, 1443, 1717, [737, 
1981, 2036, 2047, 2056, 2077, 
2384, 2603 

Justice, the, 119, 295 

JUSt war, 1786 

h\itc, 1607 

Keen, 1912 

Keen appetite, 2410 

Keen guest, 2150 



Kennel, 2676 

Kent (County of), 1006, 1838 

Kernel, 1805 

Key, 2096 

Kibe, 1654 

Kill, 161 

Killing a fly, 844 

Kin, 62, 1363 

Kind, 1591 

Kindness, 49, 228, 595, 895, 

1007, 2502, 261 1 
Kine, Pharaoh's lean, 819 
King, Kings, 51, 124, 150, 

176, 261, 405, 571, 766, 806, 

1008, 1009, 1042, 1044, 1200, 
1233, 1238, 1261, 1287, 1449, 
1556, 1600, 1743, 1744, 1774, 
1812, 1821, 1859, 2079, 2090, 
2167, 2190, 2284, 2286, 2293, 
2303, 2464 (see Happy king, 
Happy monarch) 

King Cophetua, 2508 
Kingdom, 44, 1862 
Kingdoms, 2051 
King's council, 1745 
King's graves, 2020 
King's misdeeds, 1010 
King's name, 936, 1746 
King's secrets, 659 
Kiss, 52, 381, 760, 1276, 1413, 

1559, 1629, 1631, 1772, 1821, 

21 10, 2201 
Kites, 788 
Kitten, 830 
Knave, 1846, 2536 
Knaves, 2224 
Knavery, ion 
Knavish speech, 53 
Knell, 290 
Knife, 1729 
Knight, 94, 750 
Knots, 2550 
Knowledge, 807, 827, 931, 2685 

Labour, 181, 720, 1747, 1804, 
2099, 2208, 2596, 2648 

Ladder, 2081 

Ladies, 60, 1533, 1607, 2249 
(see Women) 



Lag-end of life, 768 

Lamb, 1709 

Lamentation, 219 

Lamentings in the air, 2383 

Lamps, 802, 2485 

Lance of Justice, 1443 

Land, 1178 

Land, bowels of the, 2054 

Language, 2072 

Language (French), 1587 

Language (Welsh), 2072 

Languages, 1948 

Lantern, 2577 

Lap, 1515 

Lark, 552, 970, 1638, 1776, 1799, 
1 88 1, 2300 

Lass, 1989 

Late hours, 1369, 1496 

Latter end of a fray, 2150 

Laugh, Laughter, 184, 187,973, 
1458, 1949, 2136 

Latin, 2627 

Law, 101, 260, 511, 616, 771, 
1048, 1442, 2259 (see Adver- 
saries, Arbitrator, Attorney, 
Counsel, Indentures, Quid- 
dits, Quittance, Solicitor) 

Lawful counsel, 2274 

Lawful magistrate, 135 

Law, the world's, 1939 

Lawyer, 2427 

Lead, 634 

Leaf, 2409 

League, 1371 

Lean and slippered pantaloon, 
1740 

Lean kine, 819 

Lean man, 2488 

Lean pates, 410 

Learned man, 2681 

Learned counsel, 166 

Learned pate, 1750 

Learned Theban, 2600 

Learning, 1394, 1423, 2254 

Leaves, 1661, 1668, 191 1 

Led as Daughter, 401 

Led by the nose, 2022 

Leeks, 610, 822, 1928, 2441 

Lees of wine, 1934 



Index. 223 


Legacy, 1247 


Liquid dew of youth, 2605 


Legitimate, 421 


Liquor, 107, 438, 2652 


Lending, 1231 (see Loan) 


Little birds, 1695 


Lenity, 2307 


Little employment, 1728 


Leopards, 1077, 1770 


Little measure, 151 


Lethargy, 1976 


Livery, 2534 


Letters, 613, 2132, 2387, 2465, 


Loaf, 377 


2481, 2526 


Loan, 559, 1080, 1231, 1646 


Letters, golden, 2290 


Loathsome, 1901 


Levity, 257, 1409 


Loathsome canker, 1081 


Liars, 1801 


Locks, 1372, 2096, 2262 


Liberty, 1067 


Locks of counsel, 529 


Liberality, 1158, 1586 


Locks of hair, 623 


Libertine, 2348 


Locusts, 1707 


Library, 303, 1206 


Lofty instruments, 1582 


Licentious wickedness, 2315 


London, 2479 


Lies, 181, 279, 795, 1472, 1874, 


London road, 950 


2477, 2503 


Long life, 459, 887 


Lies like truth, 755 


Looking glass, 997, 1833,2064, 


Life, 89, 90, 121, 171, 277, 


Looks, 1086 


282, 289, 335, 336, 459, 671, 


Loop'd and window'd ragged- 


768, 817, 856, 865, 887, 


ness, 1450 


1068, 1069, 1070, 1083, 1172, 


Loquacity, 222, 889, 1062, 1 135, 


1320, 1349, 1370, 1552, 1585, 


2244 


1625, 1639, 1655, 1811, 1827, 


Lord A?igelo, 1092, 1093 


l8 53. I 9°9. J 9 2 7. J934. 203°- 


Loser, 759 


2109, 2485, 2566, 2645 ( sce 


Loss, 1956, 2304, 2456, 2457 


Age, Evil life, Youth) 


Loss of time, 2309 


Lifting up of day, 201 1 


Losses, 383 


Light, 268, 787, 802, 1017, 


Loud music, 1098, 1127 


1279, 1725, 1977 (see Morn- 


Loud rumour, 1373 


ing, Sunrise) 


Love, 23, 43, 57, 104, 125, 


Light boats, 1071 


158, 178, 187, 203, 263, 350, 


Light heart, 58 


362, 366, 382, 411, 461, 463, 


Light wife, 59 


483. 523. 55o, 628, 760, 855, 


Lightning, 234, 1601 


863,865, 931, 932, 972, 1007, 


Lights, 1548 


1039, 1051, 1063, 1065, io36, 


Lilies, 462, 1310, 1612, 2126 


1095, 1099, 1 100, 1101, 1 102, 


Limbs, 1406, 141 1 


1 103, 1 104, 1 105, 1 106, 1 107, 


Lime [see Bird-lime) 


1108, 1109, IIIO, IIII, III2, 


Lime in sack, 1844 


1113, 1114, 1115, 1116, 1117, 


Lingering pickle, 2038 


1118, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1122, 


Lions, 60, 1077, I 54^, J 562, 


1 123, 1128, 1 145, 1152, 1209, 


[673, 1736, 2156, 2699 


1263, 1317, 1327, 1362, 13I 


Lion, dying, 2087 


1376, 1384, 1397, ! 1 


Lion's skill, 1757 


1469, 1520, 155a, [567, [594, 


Lion's whelp, 2087 


1610, 1649, 1732, 1736, 1777, 


Lips, 178, 355, 925, 1276, 1418, 


l 40, 1883, I99I, 1992, 20i", 


1629, 1821, 1981 


2027, 2069, 207O, 2I02, 21 iS, 



224 Index. 


2122, 213O, 2143, 2199, 220I, 


Magnanimous mouse, 2045 


2206, 2262, 2305, 2351, 2354, 


Maids, 1125, 1444, 1681,2642, 


2355. 2372,2378, 2399, 2511, 


Mail (armour), 1438 


2517, 2568, 2573, 263O, 2641, 


Majestic world, 2484 


2650, 2663, 2666, 267O, 2692 


Majesty, 546 


Love and fortune, 1100 


Make -peace, 21 12 


Love and meekness, 1101 


Malady, 2381 


Love at first sight, 2100, 2399 


Malefactor, 776 


Lover, 84, 85, 120, 456, 1753 


Male tiger, 1826 


Lovers, 263, 614, 1433, 1883, 


Malice, 25, 342, 1266, 2302 


2168 


Man, 86, 87, 88, 671. 1334, 


Lovers' hours, 11 15 


2278 


Lovers' perjuries, 187 


Man, effeminate, 198 


Lovers' staff, 690 


Mangy dog, 195 


Lovers' tongues, 713 


Mankind, 693 


Love's spring, 1659 


Manly beauty, 5, 545 


Love's wrong, 954 


Man of action, 1919 


Love-thoughts, 1121. 


Mantle, 1800 


Loyalty, 48, 1250, 1426, 1877, 


Marble, 1251 


2395. 2542 


Marble minds of men, 1153 


Low-born lass, 1989 


March, 880, 1739 


Lowest hell, 1704 


March, Ides of, 245 


Lowliness, 2081 


Marching, 2054 


Lowly-born, 939 


Mare, 706, 2026 


Lowly feigning, 2183 


Marigolds, 988 


Lucifer, 127 


Market-place, 1667 


Luck, 1818 


Market town, 1056 


Lucky joys, 123 


Marksmen, 1807 


Lunatics, 429, 1753 


Marriage, 6, 203, 205, 452, 


Lungs, 2043 


5o5. 556, 633, 935, 1033, 


Lurking serpent, 241 1 


1051, 1140, 1178, 1222, 1304, 


Luscious food, 1707 


1400, 1569, 1640, 1736, 1777, 


Lustre, 83 


2361, 2510, 2568 


Lusty trumpet, 2306 


Marriage tables, 2050 


Lusty winter, 438 


Marriage vows, 2649 


Lute, 1380 


Marrow less, 2062 


Lying, 1094, 1538, 2418 


Mars, 1252 




Mask, 855, 2309 


Macedon, 1813 


Maskers, 1914 


Mad, 2021 


Massacre, 1917 


Mad days, 1392 


Mast, 2434 


Mad dog's tooth, 1291 


Masters, 977, 2234 


Mad folks, 429 


Matin, 1716 


Mad jealousy, 703 


Matrimony (see Marriage) 


Madman, 1508 


Matrons, 1142 


Madness, 515, 747, 1124, 1320, 


Maws of kites, 788 


1455, 2028, 2281 


May, 163, 1 125, 1487 


Maggots, 2521 


Meagre, 1147 


Magistrate, 135 


Meals, 2194 



Mealy wings, 1155 

Mean (tenor), 1516 

Means, 652 

Means for all, 1856 

Means to do ill deeds, 707 

Measure, 151 

Measure (see Dance) 

Meat, 88, 129, 1089, 1130, 1132, 

1282, 1414, 1864 (see Food) 
Meats, 2050 
Mediation, 548 
Medical skill, 661 
Medicinable gum, 1365 
Medicines, 277, 815, 1761 
Meed, 1633 
Meekness, 1101, 2573 
Meeting, 821 
Melancholy, 765, 1329, 1618, 

2181 
Mellifluous voice, 94 
Mellow plum, 1759 
Melody, 1668, 2700 
Melting charity, 590 
Melting mood, 1365 
Memory, 762, 879, 943, 1252, 

1452, 1842, 2096,2130, 2366, 

2485, 2638 
Men, 68, 125, 1393 
Men in rage, 11 54 
Merchant, 2269 
Mercury, 147, 231, 1774, 1936 
Mercy, 376, 1168, 1265, 1348, 

1614, 1797, 1826, 2307 
Merit, 1386, 1475, 2203, 2275, 

2527 
Merriment, 1593 
Merry, 742, 767 
Merry company, 1492 
Merry clay, 95, 984 
Merry days, 568 
Merry feast, 1545 
Merry heart, 97 
Merry man, 96 
Merry world, 969, 2183 
Messengers of day, 2487 
Metal, 2343 

Metal more attractive, 617 
Meteors (see Astrology, Omens, 
Prodigies, Stars) 



Method in madness, 2028 

Metre ballad-mongers, 830 

Mettle, 750, 2329, 2592 

Mew, 830, 102 1 

Midnight, 343, 1689, 1910, 
2285 

Midnight bell, 419, 1740 

Midnight chimes, 2241 

Midsummer, 163 

Might, 1253, 1387 

Mighty gods, 2280 

Mighty heaven, 2466 

Mile, 97, 1954 

Milk, 1826 

Milky heart, 553 

Milk-white rose, 1780 

Miller, n 84 

Millions, 1375, 1571 

Mind, 910, 965, 1847, 1848 

Mind and body, 2228, 2362 

Mind diseas'd, 284 

Mind, troubled, 132 

Mingled yarn, 1927 

Miniature, 673 

Minion, 1613 

Ministering angel, 945 

Ministers of grace, 126 

Minnows, 565 

Minstrels, 551 

Mirror, 2129, 2566 

Mirth, 96, 459, 614, 720, 833, 
984, 1 173, 1456, 1458, 1593, 
2093, 2136, 2320, 2393 

Mirth in death, 708 

Misanthropos, 740 

Misanthropy, 440 

Mischief, 1174, 1330, 1571, 

2135 
Miser, 361, 1482 
Miserable, the, 1761 
Misery, 261, 1147, 1175, 1176, 

1563, 1626, 2040, 2323, 2370, 

2422, 2496 
Misfortune, 544, 1537, 21 19, 

2135, 2282, 2368, 2370 
Misfortune's book, 487 
Missing, 1807 
Mistakings, 1472 
Mistress, 178 

Q 



226 l7idex. 


Mistress Tear sheet, 1499 


Motion, 1966, 2253 


Mockery, 609 


Mould of form, 1701 


Mocking a leek, 822, 2447 


Mouldy stewed prunes, 564 


Mocking wenches, 1912 


Mountains, 468, 1187, 1239, 


Moderate lamentation, 1177 


1410, 1874 


Modern instances, 119 


Mountains high [see Waves) 


Modest, Modesty, 134, 247, 


Mourning, 721, 858, 1177 


622, 899, 917, 1236, 2036, 


Mourning weeds, 2534 


2275, 2642 


Mouse, 1768, 2045 


Modest stillness, 911 


Mouth, Mouths, 355, 1287, 


Monarchs, 550 


1333. 1778, 1833 


Monarchy, 2002 


Mouth-filling oath, 1607 


Money, 259, 331, 420, 633, 


Mud, 1191, i486 


652, 1126, 1178, 1466, 1838, 


Multitude, 2220, 2463 


2417 


Murder, 262, 435, 804, 1012, 


Monkey, 1894 


1168, 1192, 1258, 1827,1871, 


Monks, 67 


1917, 1953, 2084, 2106, 2162, 


Monmouth, 1813 


2179, 2318, 2425 


Monmouth caps, 1928 


Murderers, 224 


Monstrous life, 2645 


Muse, 1312, 1315 


Monumental mockery, 1438 


Muses, the, 237 


Monuments, 786, 1251, 1382, 


Music, 283, 290, 306, 309, 415, 


1522, 1986, 1994, 2035, 2518 


482, 483, 551, 606, 713, 714, 


Moody melancholy, 161 8 


715, 731, 742, 808, 838, 996, 


Moon, the, 32, 275, 300, 787, 


1036, 1060, 1097, 1098, 1 127, 


829, 1384, 1681, 1762, 1763, 


1138, 1139, 1141, 1170, 1185, 


1784, 1866, 1872, 1973, 2368 


1193, 1194, 1214, 1277, 1380, 


Moonlight, 716, 1762 


1462, 1499, 1516, 1524, 1558, 


Moonshine, 3 


1582, 1583, 1643, 1668, 1711, 


Moor, the, 1764 


1756, 1816, 1881, 1913, 1914, 


Moral, 2671 


2043, 2171, 2172, 2306, 2309, 


Moralities, 2057 


2448, 2450, 2668 (see An- 


Morning, 29, 247, 468, 490, 


thems, Ballad, Ballad-mon- 


970, 1087, 1239, 1369, 1498, 


gers, Ditties, Harmony, 


1696, 1716, 1725, 1738, 1766, 


Mean, Melody, Minstrels, 


1977, 2486 


Part-singing, Singing, Song, 


Morning face, 1779 


Sneak's noise, Tunes, Voice) 


Morning star, 1088, 1240 


Musicians, 290 


Morn of youth, 2605 


Musical instruments, 1138, 


Morrow, 1528 


1582 (see Bell, Fife, Flute, 


Mortal, 158 


Harp, Lute, Pipe, Record- 


Mortality, 661, 893, 1253, 1853, 


ers, Sackbuts, Stringed In- 


2235, 2427 {see Death) 


struments, Tambourines, 


Mortal men, 426, 1352, 2257 


Trumpets) 


Mortals, 1096 


Musty, 2389 


Mortal sting, 241 1 


Mutiny, 514 


Mortice, 2317 


My lady, 1567 


Mortimer, 875 




Mothers, 4, 389, 121 1, 2510 


Nag, 2098 



Index, 227 


Nails, finger, 323 


Nimble spirits, 1593, 2678 


Naked wretches, 1450 


Nimble thought, 1241 


Name, 98, 2322 


Nimble tongue, 40 


Name of God, 1987 


Nine Mtises, 237 


Narcissus, 545 


Nine Worthies, 2012 


Narrow world, 581 


Nobility, 956, 2169 


Nature, 76, 158, 193, 450, 671, 


Nobility's true badge, 161 


672, 711, 938, 1224, 1225, 


Noble actions, 1195 


1226, 1227, 1228, 1286, 1310, 


Noble deeds, 709, 1236 


1363, 1408, 1767, 2086, 2114, 


Noble hearts, 1277 


2129, 2145, 22 o 2 . 2291, 2609 


Noble horsemanship, 2154 


(see Mortality, Death) 


Nobleman, 796 


Naughty world, 697 


Noble mind, 1420 


Nay, 1444 


Noblest Roman, 2004 


Nay, a woman's, 563 


Noble temper, 2599 


Necessities, 1291, 1660, 1830, 


Noble thoughts, 1195 


2310 


Noble wife, 1429 


Need, 1230, 1377, 2408 


Noble youth, 660 


Negligence, 292, 1357, 1358 


Noise, 1015, 1060, 1499, 1711, 


Neptune, 672 


1974, 2651 


Nest, 1792 


Noon, 1283 


Nestor, 61.8, 881 


North star, 1886 


Net, 616 


Northern star, 734 


Nettle, 1417, 1895, 2233 


Nose, 36, 1749 


Neutral, 2395 


Nosegays, 1516 


New customs, 1232 


Nostril, 1798 


New friends, 356 


Nothing, 1268 


New plants, 663 


Nought, 563 


New robes, 1580, 2361 


Numbers, 1818 


News, 799, 1705, 1773 ( see Bad 


Nuptial ceremony, 1569 


news, Good news) 


Nuptial feast, 1169 


News, bad, 358, 1930, 2024, 


Nurse, 752, 2672 


2279 


Nut, 780, 1805 


News, happy, 123 


Nut-shell, 766 


Nice customs, 1238 




Night, 308, 343, 490, 557, 560, 


Oak, 109, 599, 634, 2317, 2434 


612, 713, 721, 723, 1037, 


Oaths, 135, 276, 885, 959, 1237, 


1084, 1301, 1306, 1369, 1449, 


1297, 1384, 1427, 1607, 1770, 


1528, 1558, 1580, 1689, 1692, 


1987, 2103, 2131, 2649 


1725, 1763, 1775, 2123, 2151, 


Obedience, 1300, 1649, 2340, 


2332 (see Good night) 


2 5°7. 2 573. 26l 5 


Might's candles, 1239 


Obscurity, 1897 


Night in Russia, 2007 


Observed of all observers, 1701 


Night of life, 2485 


Observer, 593 


Night of revels, 2308 


Obstinacy, 664 


Nightingale, 971, 2451 


Occasion, 2188 


Night's swift dragons, 1240 


( )cean, 79, 2608 


Nile, Nilus, 555, 631 


Oct a v ia, 1303 


Nimble hand, 2127 


Odd numbers, 1818 



228 Index. 


Odour, 1836 (see Perfumes) 


Over-exertion, 2506 


O'er-fraught heart, 1726 


Over-happy, 2229 


Offence, 232, 914, 2603 


Over-matching waves, 164 


Offences, 69, 73 


Owing (see Debt, Loan) 


Offender's sorrow, 178 1 


Owl, 16, 1667, 1776, 1792, 


Offending, 1922 


1910 


Office, 11, 1386 


Oxen, 2266 


Officer, 1605, 1907 


Ox-lips, 866 


Old Abraham, 1616 


Oyster, 1482, 2436 


Old accustomed feast, 1997 




Old age, 1649, 2001 (see Age) 


Pageants, 1683, 2006 


Old and antique song, 1643 


Pain, 817, 1747, 1804, 2381 


Old bees, 1782 


Pains, 2208 


Old chronicle, 1028 


Painted faces, 392, 604, 1822 


Old decree, 2509 


Painted skin, 1378 


Old fashions, 1344 


Painting, 1430, 2609 


Old fellows, 1876 


Painting the lily, 2126 


Old fools, 1345 


Palaces, 820, 2036, 2380 


Old lion dying, 2087 


Pale cheeks, 1867 


Old man, 137, 138 


Pale face, 1930 


Old men, 288, 1346 (see Age) 


Pale-fac'd fear, 1044 


Old Nile, 631 


Pale-fac'd moon, 275, 1784 


Old robes, 2361 


Pallas, 147 


Old song, 1643 


Palm, 2484 


Old world, 698 


Palmers' chat, 143 1 


Olive, 1436 


Pamphlets, 316 


Omens, 943, 1136, 1872, 2368, 


Pancake, 2546 


2383 


Pang, 1875 


Omittance, 1351 


Pansies, 1857 


Open air, 2251 


Pantaloon, 1749 


Open dealing, 2178 


Panther, 843 


Open ear, 2127 


Pantry, 1945 


Open eye, 560 


Paper, 1305 


Open hand, 590 


Parallels, 2075 


Openness, 949, 1162 


Pard, 1770 


Opinion, 1374, 2388 


Pardon, 39, 179, 916, 920, 


Opinions, golden, 840 


1287, 1432, 1587, 2346 


Opportunity, 1331 


Parents, 1300 


Oppressor, 1783 


Parliament, 2578 


Oppression, 1176, 1230 


Parting, 9. 50, 348, 381, 407, 


Orators, 70, 215, 272, 470, 509, 


457, 520, 821, 1433, 1531, 


743, 881, 1712 


1574, 1861, 2058, 2076, 2372 


Oratory, 1078, 1588 


Partizan, 828 


Orb 0' the earth, 1754 


Part-singing, 1516 


Ordure, 327 


Passion, 485, 584, 1409, 2331 


Ornament, 1615, 1938 


Past, the, 1670, 1969, 1971, 


Orphan, 1783 


2135, 2319 


Orpheus' lute, 1380 


Pasture, 524 


Othello, 926, 962, 1391 


Pasty, 2239 



Index. 229 


Patch'd, 1996 


Perk'd up, 939 


Pates, 410, 1750 


Pernicious hour, 1061 


Pate, to break the, 139 


Pernicious soul, 1143 


Patience, 561, 710, 871, 1156, 


Perpetual motion, 2253 


1522, i860, 1956, 2020, 2026, 


Perpetual peace, 2 141 


2142, 2370, 2376, 2498, 2537, 


Perseverance, 1438, 1968 


2 53 8 » 2 556, 2558, 2584, 2613 


Persuasion, 1884, 2059 


Patience of Job, 728 


Pert and nimble spirit, 1593 


Patient, the, 1785 


Perturbed spirit, 1477 


Patrician, 739 


Petard, 1026 


Patriotism, 774, 1271 


Petty streams, 1787 


Pattern, 2547 


Phantasma, 242 


Paunches, 410 


Pharaoh's lean kine, 819 


Payment, 602 


Philosophy, 547, 737, 13 16, 


Peace, 29, 141, 726, 911, 1057, 


1455, 1802, i860 


1065, 1410, 1411, 1434, 1436, 


Philosophers, 355 


1446, 1543, 1592, 1616, 1703, 


Phosbus, 247, 472 


1786, 2141, 2620, 2625 


Phrases, 525 


Peacemakers, 249, 2112, 2516 


Physic, 792, 989, 1626, 1747, 


Peacemaking, 548, 1742 


2053 


Peacock, 2564 


Physician, 1182, 1785 


Peacock's feather, 2504 


Pickle, 2038 


Pearl, 481, 1482, 2435 


Pickpocket, 2127 


Peas, 1983 


Picture, 673, 1085, 11 66 


Peasant, 1654 


Pigeons, 1983 


Peers of England, 1371 


Pigmy's straw, 1443 


Peevish fool, 2443 


Pilchards, 428 


Pegasus, 2154 


Pilgrim, 188 


Pelf, 892 


Pilgrimage, 1431, 2019 


Pelican, 2128 


Pillage, 1440 


Pen, 349, 2070 


Pillow, 1364, 2226 


Penitence, 411 


Pilot, 669 


Penknife, 486 


Pinch, 1806 


Pennyworths, 1440 


Pine, 1661 


People, the, 130, 794, 816, 


Pining, 632 


1323, 1704, 1788, 1808,2220, 


Pins, 668 


2463, 2530, 2584 


Pious action, 2461 


People's enemy, 2656 


Pipe, 368, 1489, 2043, 2448 


Peppercorn, 133 


Pippins, 1855, 2273 


Perch, 1937 


Pirates, 1440 


Perdition, 1437 


Pitch, 1959 


Perfection, 390, 900, 1257, 


Pitchers, E44.J 


2254, 2296, 2.10 r, 2472 


Piteous massacre, 191; 


Performance, 1591 


Pitiful day, 308 


Perfumes, 78, 925, 1518, 1650, 


Pitiless storm, 1450 


1780, 1836, 2322 


Pity, 271, 375, 432, 587, 590, 


Perils, 2078 


1 157, 1242, 1442, 1630 


Perjury, 187, 959, 1297, 1623, 


Place, 1375, 2033 


2191, 2438, 2468 


Place for all, 1856 



Plague, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 

747 

Plain and simple faith, 1803 

Plain meaning, 922 

Plain words, 684 

Plaited cunning, 2080 

Planet, 974 

Plants, 663, 1350 

Plate sin with gold, 1443 

Play, Plays, 475, 606, 615, 
785, 864, 1062, 1788, 1789, 
1812, 2006, 2316, 2320 

Players, 816, 1070, 1501 

Playhouse, 1865 

Pleasant days, 2250 

Pleasure, 554, 962, 1259, 1445, 
2423 

Pleasures of the Court, 113 

Pledge, 1987 
Plenty, 1446 

Plodding, 2678 

Plot, 934, 956, 984 

Plum, 1759 

Plummet, .341 

Poesy, 1 189, 1412 

Poet, 1753 

Poetical, 778 

Poets' sinews, 1380 

Poetry, 778, 2222, 2369, 2518 

Poison, 666, 1291, 1399, 1950, 

2678 
Poison'd chalice, 1981 
Poisoning, 773 
Poisonous, 2008 
Pole-star, 1886 
Policy, 687, 1 157 
Politician, 474 
Pollution, 1228, 1257 
Pomp, 1626, 2204, 2445 
Pool, 1800 
Poor, 1428, 1447, 1602, 1790, 

2058, 2184, 2433 
Poor as Job, 728 
Poor hands, 2675 
Poor-house, 1482 
Poor in thanks, 735 
Poor man's right, 616 
Poor men's causes, 1082 
Poor men's cottages, 820 



Poor Tom, 145 1 
Popularity, 579, 1323 
Portents, 300, 311, 1425, 1872 
Portraits, 673, 1085, 1166, 

1430 
Ports, 72 

Possession, 165 1, 1902 
Posterity, 471, 2137, 2518 
Potations, 797 
Potentates, 261 
Pot of ale, 773, 2479 
Pot o' the smallest ale, 115 
Potter's wheel, 12 18 
Pouch, 1479 
Poverty, 259, 354, 388, 1176, 

1213, 1428, 1480, 1602, 1626, 

1906, 2184 
Powder (see Gunpowder) 
Power, 285, 1324, 1652, 1825, 

1955 
Power of speech, 2657 
Powers above, 1703 
Praise, 221, 1308, 1413, 1688, 

2254, 2271, 2369, 2401, 2420, 

2518, 2527, 2531, 2623 
Prattle, 2289 
Prayer, 677, 1037, 1461, 2149, 

2160, 2245, 2466 
Preach, 1455 

Preaching and practice, 757 
Precedence, 1130 
Precious flowers, 2198 
Precious gold, 510 
Precipice, 876 
Precise, 1092 
Precocity, 1585 
Preferment, 2108 
Present, the, 674, 2246, 2658 
Present fears, 1457 
Presumption, 264 
Pretty worm, 555 
Prey, 1937 
Prickles, 2330 
Pride, 664, 983, 1416, 1460, 

1613, 2085, 2564, 2589, 2695 
Pride of poverty, 1428 
Priests, 750, 945, 1609, 2624, 

2637 
Primroses, 1924 



Primy nature, 193 

Prince, Princes, 167, 499, 
1250, 1251, 1277, 1328, 1462, 
1617, 2339, 2547, 2637 

Prince of darkness, 1793 

Prince's brother, 2438 

Prince's favorites, 538 

Prince's favors, 1328 

Prince's palaces, 820 

Privates, 124 

Private wound, 1794 

Privilege, 128 

Procrastination, 241, 1133,1648 

Prodigal, 1589. 1681 

Prodigality, 148, 1272 

Prodigies, 300 (see Astrology, 
Moon, Omens, Stars) 

Profession, 2591 

Proffered service, 607 

Profit, 1259 

Project, 1278 

Prologue, 2186 

Promise, 1987, 2334 

Promising, 1463 

Prompter, 2263 

Promptitude, 465, 1244, 1648, 
1706 

Proud array, 1506 

Proper deformity, 1464 

Proper stripling, 149 

Prophets, 998 

Propriety, 1535 

Prosperity, 1434, 1465, 1958, 

Proteus, 13 17 

Proverbs, old, 608, 967, 1123, 
1532, 1839, 1941, 1949, 1959, 
2104, 2260, 2283, 2288, 2313, 
2 3 2 9- 2389, 2412, 2452, 2470, 
2598, 2660, 2699 

Providence, 264, 636, 640, 13 13, 
1758, 181.}, 

Provident, 946 

Prudence, 559, 1532, 2008 
Prunes, 564, 1849 
Psalms, 1817 
Psalteries, [913 
Ptolemies' pyramids, 848 
Public good, 2610 

Public haunt. 121 



Puddings, 2252 

Pulse, 1 2 14 

Pumps, 475 

Punishment, 65, 1717 

Pupil, 752 

Puppies, 371 

Purge, 796 

Puritan, 1817 

Purity, 1851, 2031 

Purple, 988 

Purpose, 1244, 1706, 2331, 

2338, 2638 
Purse, 420, 758, 1466, 2043, 

2127, 2417 
Pursuit, 81 
Pursy times, 916 
Pyramids, 848 

Quaffing, 1644 

Quaintness, 272, 1751 

Quality of mercy, 1797 

Qualmish, 610 

Quarrel, 243, 357, 847, 898, 

1047, 1770, 2047, 2414 
Quart of ale, 150 
Queen, 2072, 21 13 
Queen Elizabeth, 2547 
Queen of Heaven, 1276 
Quick, 253 
Quick eye, 2127 
Quick in quarrel, 1770 
Quick mettle, 2592 
Quiet conscience, 141 
Quietness, 489, 1015, 1060 
Quiet hours, 768 
Quiet soul, 1289 
Quiet walks, 2617 
Quiddits, 2427 
Quillets of the law, 260 
Quinces, 1945 
Quittance, 1351 

Race, 2446 
Rack, 2209 
Rage, 1154 

Raging war, 2078 

1443 
Railing wife, 1322 



232 Index, 


Raiment, 2314 


Heaven, Sacred throne, 


Rain, 1601, 1797, 2315, 2341, 


Salvation, Scripture) 


2 347. 2 5°° 


Religious men, 2349 


Rain-water, 681 


Reliques, 1512 


Rainy morrow, 490 


Remembrance, 194, 535, 1452, 


Rancour, 1467 


1857, 2366, 2606 


Rank, 299, 536, 1386, 1957 


Remorse, 1254, 1270, 1652, 


Rankle, 1091 


1781, 2498 


Rascal, 815, 1321, 1768 


Renown, 167 


Rattling tambourines, 2171 


Repentance, 64, 1473, 2180, 


Rattling tongue, 917 


2394. 2553 


Ravel out, to, in 


Repose, 1408 * 


Ravens, 636, 943, 1799, 2421 


Reposing hours, 1576 


Razes of ginger, 835 


Report, 1474 (see Fame, Repu- 


Razor's edge, 1912 


tation, Rumour) 


Reading, 287, 21 14, 2158 


Reptiles (see Adder, Asp, 


Reaping, 1404 


Glowworm, Serpent, Snail, 


Reason, 526, 585, 1469, 1476, 


Snake, Toad, Worm) 


I 537. I 93 I > 2264, 2281, 2367 


Reputation, 345, 518, 637, 


Reason, a woman's, 2598 


1223, T224, 1475, 1770, 1795, 


Reasons, strong, 1597 


2612 (see Fame, Report, 


Rebellion, 298, 2197 


Rumour) 


Rebuke, 801, 905, 1521 


Resolution, 397, 700, 1916 


Reckless, 1557 


Respect, 1476 


Recklessness, 751 


Rest, 521, 1477, 1478, 1729 


Reckoning of time (see Candle, 


Restitution, 2429 


Daybreak, Dial, Stars, Sun, 


Restive sloth, 2226 


Time) 


Retirement, 2617 


Recompense (see Rewards) 


Retreat, 19 15 


Reconciler, 1742 


Revels, Revelry, 962, 1496, 


Recorded time, 2134 


1511, 1743, 2308, 2316 


Recorders, 309 


Revenge, 52, 122, 506, 1258, 


Recreant, 1145 


1388, 1479, 2142, 2611 


Recreation, 1618 


Revengeful arms, 2082 


Recruits, 880 


Reverence, 270 


Redress, 231 1 


Revolted wives, 1530 


Red rose, 118, 1025 


Rewards, 65, 1633, 1665, 1900, 


Reed, 828 


2407 


Re-edified, 1994 


Reward of valour, 905 


Reeling world, 957 


Rheum, 2174 


Refined gold, 2126 


Rhymes, 237 


Reform, T470 


Rhyming planet, 974 


Regress, 2039 


Ribald crows, 1676 


Regret, 1969, 1971, 2135, 2312, 


Ribbons, 475 


2319 


Ribs, 964 


Reign, 2445 


Ribs of oak, 2317 


Relenting fool, 1471 


Rich, 1447, 2058 


Relics, 265 


Riches, 1480, 2422 


Religion, 677, 2613 (see God, 


Rich eyes, 2675 



Index. 



2 33 



Rich gifts, 148 1 

Rich honesty, 482 

Rich jewel, 612 

Rich, not gaudy, 321 

Rich preys, 1483 

Rich thieves, 1483 

Rich villains, 2357 

Riddles, 1016 

Riddling confession, 1484 

Right, 576, 616, 1387 

Right hand, 1592 

Ring (prize for racing), 648 

Ripe grapes, 1905 

Ripest fruit, 1835 

Rising, early, 2120 

Risk, 1165, 1220, 1398 

Rivalry, 2185 

River, 1813, 2310 

Roarers (waves of the sea), 

2284 
Robbers, 2307 
Robbery, 2664 
Robes, 1580, 2052, 2361 
Rock, 599 

Rocky mountains, 1410 
Roe, 2066 

Roguery, 1844, 1846 
Rooky wood, 1072 
Roll of common men, 746 
Roman, 155, 829, 2004 
Roman actors, 208 
Romans, 982, 1748, 1913 
Rome, 95, 375, 1045, 1737, 

2527 
Romeo, 1379 
Room for all, 1856 
Root, insane, 2264 
Roots, 327, 2434 
Roscius, 2318 

Rose, Roses, 1024, 1025, 1310, 
i486, 1650, 1780, 1836, 2322, 
2 33°. 2350, 2469, 2650 (see 
White rose, Red rose) 

Rose of the fair state, 1701 

Rosemary, 1857 

Rosy lips and cheeks, 11 18 

Rot, 1 143 

Rotten, 1572 

Rotten apples, 1858 



Rotten case, 156 

Rotten fens, 2493 

Rotten thing, 611 

Roughness, 1988 

Rough winds, 1487 

Rough world, 2209 

Royal banquet, 304 

Royal heart, 1044 

Ruddy drops, 2489 

Rudeness, 1999 

Rue, 1 841 

Ruin, 2344, 2687 

Rule, 1468, 2445, 2615 

Rumination, 1432 

Rumour, 394, 1373, 1468, 1474, 

1488, 1489 
Running, 625, 648 
Rushes, 634, 1515 
Russet mantle, 1766 
Russia, 2007 
Rust, 2253 

Rustling of silks, 1040 
Rusty mail, 1438 

Sables, 2534 

Sack, 478, 796, 797, 1353, 1844, 

2450 
Sack and sugar, 811 
Sackbuts, 1913 
Sacrament, 118 
Sacred, 1490 
Sacred king, 2286 
Sacred throne, 2571 
Sacrifices, 1064 
Sad fools, 1990 
Sad heart, 97, 2489 
Sad hours, 1491 
Sadness, 833, 2095 
Sad sights, 2147 

Sad souls, 1492 
Sad spectacle, 1863 

Safety, 506, 1417, 1493, i53 2 » 

'733- 2479 
Sagg, 1760 

Sailors, 1527 

Sails, 473, 641,789, 1904, 1933, 

2222 
Saint, 444 

St. David's day , 2441 



234 Index. 


Salad days, 12 15 


Seals, 1205, 2132, 2201, 2333 


Salmons, 1813 


Seasons, 1553, 1892 (see Spring, 


Salt sea, 1787 


Summer, Autumn, Win- 


Salutation, 1494, 1696 


ter) 


Salvation, 575, 2424, 2541 


Second childhood, 1013, 1345 


Sanctuary, 1258 


Secresy, 443, 699, 1237, 1962, 


Sands (see Goodwin Sands) 


2096 


Sans everything, 1013 


Secret book, 112 


Sap, 1 66 1 


Secrets, 140, 659, 2000 


Satan, 127 (see Devil) 


Seduction, 846, 2415 


Satchel, 1779 


Seeling night, 308 


Satire, 1569 


Seeming, 1635 


Satisfied, 602 


Seeth, 533 


Satyr, 1556 


Self-control, 1931 


Sauce, 380, 685, 883, 1864, 1999 


Self-knowledge, 2245 


Saucy doubts and fears, 732 


Self-love, 1504 


Saucy eloquence, 917 


Self-mettle, 2545 


Saucy roughness, 1988 


Self-neglecting, 1504 


Savageness, 1526 


Self-praise, 1854 


Savoury, 1414 


Self-slaughter, 24 


Saying well, 955 


Self-trust, 2377 


Scales of justice, 116 


Selling, 987 


Scandal, 536, 2289 


Senators, 1918 


Scarecrow, 2259 


Sense of death, 1875 


Scarfs, 1 142 


Sentences, 527 


Scarlet hips, 2434 


Sentinel, 2378 


Scars, 603 


Sepulchres, 1719, 2001 


Scene, 2006 


Sere and yellow leaf, 850 


Scholar, 1685, 2505 


Seriousness, 2095 


School, 1073, I 46i, 1779, 2592 


Sermons in stones, 121 


Schoolboys, 1073, iio 4» J 779 


Serpent, 432, 1260, 241 1 


Scorn, 1418, 1629, 2129, 2480 


Serpent of old Nile, 631 


Scotch 'd the snake, 2242 


Serpent's curse, 1020 


Scraps, 1948 


Serpent's tooth, 712 


Scratching the face, 323 


Servants, 2234 


Screams of death, 2383 


Service, 106, 779, 832, 1472, 


Screech-owls, 1910 


1505, 1791, 1877, i9 8 5. 21o8 > 


Scripture paraphrased, 249, 


2234, 2507, 2648 


433. 754- 8 °9» ^S. l6 9°. 


Servility, 2113 


2165, 2270 


Sessions, 2366 


Scurvy politician, 474 


Setting sun, 1163 


Scythe, Time's, 1267 


Seven ages, the, 119, 120, 183, 


Sea, 1261, 1787, 1866, 1898, 


1013, 1749, 1770, 1779 


2284, 2288, 2373 


Severe, 1093 


Sea-monster, 908 


Shabby attire, 668 


Sea-shore, 1083 


Shade of night, 2460 


Sea-waves, 2317 


Shadow, 486 


Sea-voyage, 696 


Shadows, 13, 307, 609, 862, 


Sealing, 849 (see Wax) 


1112, 1122, 1664, 1668, 1923 



I?idex. 235 


Shakspeares Cliff, 876, 1809 


Silent hours, 1885 


Shall, absolute, 565 


Silent thought, 2366 


Shallow, 22^1 


Silks, 1040, 2269 


Shallow foppery, 1041 


Silver currents, 1400 


Shallow fords, 344 


Silver fountains, i486 


Shame, 250, 1236, 1371, 1381 
Shame the devil, 1632 


Silver goddess, 293 


Silver hairs, 675 


Shapeless garment, 2419 


Simple men, 2230 


Sharded beetle, 1313 


Simpleness, 1234 


Sharp war, 2141 


Simplicity, 1234, 2388 


Sheep, 524, 901 


Simplicity of truth, 729 


Sheets of fire, 1601 


Sin, Sins, 416, 422, 567, 585, 


Shepherd, 901, 1088, 1557, 1880 


725, 959, 1265, 1338, 1360, 


Shields, 1288 


1443, I 568, 1671, 2099, 2 34 2 » 


Ships, 1220, 1527, 1904, 2317 


2552, 2680 


Shipwreck, 2092 


Sincerity, 949, 1162, 2103, 2302 


Shoes, 1040 


Sinews, 1380, 2648 


Shooting, 1807 


Singe, 566 


Shops, 255 


Singing, 94, 117, 441, 775, 1524, 


Shore, 1083 


1526, 2459 


Shouting Romans, 1913 


Single spies, 2358 


Showers, 1549, 1659, 2560 


Sinners, 2565 


Shows, 113, 858, 1634, 1683 


Sinning, 725 


Shows of love, 1448 


Sir John Falstaff, 1538 


Shreds and patches, 51 


Sir Knight, 750 


Shrewsbury clock, 2238 


Sir Priest, 750 


Shrieking, 1667 


Sister, 945 


Shrift, 1484 


Site, 1979 


Shrill echoes, 2067 


Sitting, 1262 


Shrill-gorg'd lark, 1881 


Skies, 1886 


Shrove Tuesday, 2546 


Skill, 584, 2371, 2614 


Shrubs, 1680 


Skin, painted, 1378 


Shrug, 1882 


Skirr away, 108 


Shuffling- nag, 2098 


Skull, 2427 


Shuttle, 1068 


Sky, 1 125, 1765 


Sick, 792 


Slander, 279, 1253, 1542, 1581, 


Sickle, Time's, 1118 


2289, 2303 


Sickness, 277, 894, 1082, 1299, 


Slaughter, 845, 2400 


2272 (see Health) 


Slaves, 140, 207, 1388, 2 1 13, 


Sighing, Sighs, 120, 144, 1108, 


2529 


I2 33> 1533. 22 47 


Sleek-headed men, 1030 


Sight, 644, 837, 876 


Sleep, 41, 117, 283, 649, 753, 


Si^lit of death, 2001 


799, 1030, 1 193, 1286, 1382, 


Sightless night, 1449 


1408, 1507, 1543, 1544, i 57 o, 


Sights of honour, 1683 


1785, 1887, 1919, 1990, 2032, 


Signature, 2481 


2068, 2!.| (26, 2204, 


Silence, 222, 492, 559, 86r, 


2332 (see Slum her) 


869, 1202, 1534, 1535, 1726, 


Sleeping, the, 1887 


1730, 1884, 2095, 21 17, 2324 


Sleeping giant, 174 



236 Index. 


Sleeping of the blood, 1976 


430. 59 2 . 765> 830. 770. io^3» 


Sleeping wolf, 2217 


1 170, 1277, 1643, 2072, 2437 


Slings, 108 


Song of birds, 1653, 1668, 


Slippery place, 650 


1695, 1881 


Sloth, 2226 


Songs of Apollo, 1936 


Slumber, 162, 2109 


Sorrow, 939, 983, 1019, 1341, 


Small ale, 434 


1361, 1529, 1544, 1551, 1575, 


Small cheer, 1545 


1576, 1577, 1726, 1781, 1870, 


Small curs, 1546 


2058, 2105, 2358, 2372, 2570 


Small herbs, 1547 


Soul, Souls, 575, 640, 836, 


Small lights, 1548 


1188, 1212, 1216, 1279, 1289, 


Small showers, 1549 


1437, 1492, 1616, 1805, 1831, 


Small vices, 2052 


2136, 2149, 2254, 2261, 2424, 


Smallest ale, 115 


2541, 2558 


Smallest twine, 1888 


Soul in agony, 1173 


Smallest worm, 1889 


Sounds, 1756, 1880 (see Music, 


Smell, 36, 189, 480, 610, 934, 


Songs, &c.) 


1650, 1780, 1798, 2322, 2528, 


Sour, 714 


2607 


Sour face, 1905 


Smiles, 169, 1359, 1502, 1522, 


Southern wind, 1890 


1571, 2206, 2247, 2382, 2425, 


Sowing, 1404 


2500 


Spain, 958 


Smoke, 1.108 


Spangle, 2327 


Smoky house, 1322 


Spaniel, 2512 


Smooth water, 1550 


Spark, 578 


Snail, 1779 


Sparrow, 636, 1814 


Snail-paced beggary, 347 


Speaker, 1712 


Snake, 2242 


Speaking first, 990 


Snapper-up, 170 


Special providence, 18 14 


Snares, 1198 


Specialties, 1048 


Snarling sorrow, 1551 


Spectacles, 1749 


Sneak's noise, 1499 


Speculation, 1165, 1220, 1398, 


Snow, 235, 301, 2670 


2062 


So be it, 397 


Speech, 222, 246, 367, 493, 


Society, 1554, 1555 


676, 960, 966, 1078, 1 135, 


Soft kiss, 1413 


1431, 1432, 1435, 1525, 1588, 


Soft stillness, 1558 


1712, 1884, 2117, 2255, 2292, 


Soil, 1589 


2302, 2390, 2416, 2418, 2474, 


Soldier, Soldiers, 2, 171, 225, 


2657, 2665 (see Tongue, 


332, 727, 880, 1 145, 1560, 


Voice) 


1637, 1685, 1770, 2505 


Speed, 231, 234, 625, 655, 804, 


Soldier's life, 2109 


882, 1229, 1891, 1903, 2139, 


Soldiers' stomachs, 1561 


2276 


Solemn supper, 2138 


Spent swimmers, 363 


Solicitor, 2071 


Sphere, 2185 


Solitude, 2392 


Spider, 1198 


Son, Sons, 389, 1169, 1500, 


Spies, 2358 


1510, 2551, 2654 


Spirit, 152, 163, 853, 928, 


Song, Songs, 117, 202, 226, 


1 109, 1477 



Spiriting, 976 
Spirit of love, 1383 
Spirit of wine, 1335 
Spirits, 756, 1910 
Spirits of the wise, 2061 
Spit, 2480 
Spite, 751, 1908 
Spoils, 151, 1756 
Sport, Sports, 574, 598, 785, 
962, 1645, 1804, 2325, 2496 
Spotless reputation, 1795 
Spring, 1295, 1327, 1659, 1678, 

1892, 2196, 2248 
Spring, Love's, 11 16 
Springes, 1589 
Springs, 2434 
Spring-time showers, 2560 
Spur, 1413, 1929, 2311 
Spurring too fast, 655 
Square, 1468 

Staff, 173, 690 

Stage, 8o, 165, 864, 1070 (see 

Theatre) 
Stags, 2066 
Stalled oxen, 2266 
Standing bowl of wine, 2236 
Standing pool, 1800 
Star-light {see Light, Stars) 
Starling, 875 
Star, northern, 734 
Stars, 763, 972, 1017, 1088, 

1239, 1240, 1662, 1843, 1886, 

1893, 2185, 2327, 2368 
Starvation, 240, 1058, 1230, 1943 
Starving, 632 

State, 137, 1701 

Stately triumphs, 113 

Station, 1957 

Statists, 919 

Stealing, 643, 730, 2048, 2417 

[see Thieves) 
Steel, 958, 1710, 1918, 2047 
Steeled sinews, 2648 
Steel gad, or stylus, 981 
Steep hills, 2121 

Steers, 1076 

Stew'd, 2038 

Stewed prunes, 564, 1849 

Still evening, 715 



Stillness, 911, 1558, 1723 

Still swine, 2104 

Sting, 241 1 

Stirring dwarf, 174 

Stitchery, 305 

Stolen, 1948 

Stomachs, 1414, 1561, 2494 

Stones, 108, 1350 

Stone walls, 1594 

Stony limits, 1594 

Stoop of wine, 839 

Storms, 251, 252, 386, 1055, 
1281, 1347, 1450, 1549, 2383, 
2428, 2679 

Storms of state, 137 

Stout heart, 397 

Strange-achieved gold, 445 

Strange actions, 1597 
Strange bedfellows, 1175 
Strange capers, 2168 
Strange fellows, 1226 
Stratagems, 1756 
Straw, 1443 

Strawberries, 1207, 1895 
Straws, 1297 

Stream, 789,871, 1400,1686, 1787 
Strength, 1336, 2301 
Strife, 452, 1027, 2105 
Strike now, 1595 
Stringed instruments, 1 138, 2359 
Stripling, 149 
Striving, 1596, 2371, 250^ 
Strong reasons, 1597 
Student, 1004 
Study, 1222, 1598, 2685 
Subjects, king's, 2558 
Submission, 232, 1599, 2234 
Substance, 11 12, 1923 
Substitute, 176 
Success, 1958 
Sucking eggs, 765 
Sudden storms, [549 
Sugar, 685, 811, 2461 
Sugar 'd words, 666 
Suffering, 601, 747, 2392 
Suicide, 385, 639, 1399, 1530 
(see Self-slaughter) 

Summer, 1235, 1604, 1892, 
1897, 191 1, 2063, 2453 



Summer air, 84 
Summer bird, 201 1 
Summer cloud, 286 
Summer's bower, 2072 
Summer's flower, 1897 
Summer's lease, 1487 
Summer's pleasures, 1604 
Sun, 29, 32, 99, 132, 148, 
159, 163, 247, 268, 300, 301, 
427, 472, 557, 695, 787, 826, 
1144, 1240, 1283, 1498, 1579, 
1762, 1872, 1873, 1898, 1913, 
1926, 2368, 2391, 2490, 2504, 
2628, 2688 
Sun-dial, 2017 
Sunny locks, 623 
Sunrise, 132, 247, 268, 468, 695 
Sun's beams, 11 17 
Sunset, 1084, 1163, 1926, 2363, 

2364 
Sunshine, 2500 
Sunshine after rain, 1102 
Superfluity, 1377 
Superstition, 1136, 2368 
Supper, 2138 
Support, 2101 
Surfeit, 11 19, 1943 
Surge, 1866 
Survey, 733 
Suspense, 242 
Suspicion, 248, 779, 809, 1605, 

1973 
Suttler, 439 
Swallows' wings, 2167 
Swans, 79, 164 
Sward, 1989 
Swear, 1237, 1384, 1606 
Swearers, 1801 
Swearing, 1607, 1608, 1609 
Sweet, 193 

Sweet and bitter fancy, 296 
Sweet and twenty, 1772 
Sweet beauty, 2170 
Sweet birds, 1653 
Sweet heart, 1506 
Sweet Jerusalem, 1574 
Sweet mercy 16 14 
Sweet music, 714, 731, 742, 

2668 



Sweet ornament, 16 15 

Sweet peace, 1616 

Sweet philosophy, 737 

Sweet prince, 1617 

Sweet recreation, 161 8 

Sweet silent thought, 2366 

Sweet soul, 1616 

Sweet sounds, 1756 

Sweet uses of adversity, 1611 

Sweets, 1902 

Sweets to the sweet, 1620 

Swift, 108 

Swiftest harts, 1904 

Swiftness, 231, 234, 423, 625, 

655, 882, 1621, 1903, 2066, 

2139 
Swimmers, 363 
Swine, 2104 
Swoon, 1 1 37 
Sword, 175, 1237, 1252, 1685, 

1786, 2367, 2436, 2593 
Sword of Spain, 958 
Sympathy, 203, 944 

Table-full of welcome, 180 

Tables, 1540, 2050 

Tables (tablets), 1217 

Tabors, 1880, 1913 

Taciturnity, 861 [see Silence) 

Tag-rag people, 816 

Tailor, 1225 

Tainted fellow, 191 

Tale, 131 

Tale, a sad, 157 

Tales, 2639 

Talk, 96, 676, 1183, 1255, 1431, 

1435, 1689, 2117, 2244 
Talkers, 1627, 1628 
Talking (see Tongue) 
Tambourines, 210, 2171 
Tangled chain, 676 
Taper, 1291 
Tapster, 182 
Tardy tricks, 1878 
Tarpeian death, 1058 
Tartar's bow, 1621 
Tartness, 1905 
Taste, 1901 
Tattered clothes, 2052 



Index. 



239 



Tavern, 989 

Teaching, 757 

Tear-falling pity, 1630 

Tears, 18 1, 462, 590, 753, 764, 
813, 823, 836, 1035, 1365, 
1631, 1659, 1861, 1866, 2174, 
2206, 2500 

Tears, Nature's, 1227 

Tear sheet, Mistress, 1499 

Tedious, 806 

Tediousness, 256, 2088 

Tel/us, 988 

Temper, 136, 1675, 2599 

Temperance, 27, 168, 438 

Tempest, 1281, 2383 

Temple, 1851 

Temptation, 1012 

Tempters of the night, 2160 

Tench, 950 

Ten commandments (finger- 
nails), 323 

Tender flattery, 1273 

Tenor, 151 6 

Tenth Muse, 237 

Testy, 2166 

Thankless child, 712 

Thanks, 384, 674, 735, 761, 
836, 1633, 1791, 1906, 2407, 
2517 

Thanksgiving, 1349 

Theatre, 165, 816, 2006 (see 
Actor, Actors, Play, Stage) 

Theban, 2600 

Theft, 2659 

Thief, 295, 391, 1762, 1866, 
1898, 1907, 2127 

Thieves, 146, 216, 255, 560, 
1483, 1963, 2659, 266 4 

Thinking, 1850 

Thinkings, 754 

'I liin potations, 797 

Thorns, 1025, 1486, 1911,2330 

Thought, Thoughts, 423, 492, 
493. 572, 744, in 7 , 
1218, 1241, 1330, 1415, 1850, 
1857, 2018, 2029, 2030, 2031, 
2292, 2366, 2476, 2560, 2633 
Thousand furlongs, 1413 
Thousand pound, 884 



Three hundred marks, 1838 

Three hundred pounds a year, 
1422 

Threshold, 1136 

Thrift, 1532, 2048, 2050 

Thriftless ambition, 2049 

Thrive, 1958 

Throat of death, 2136 

Throne, 656, 2571, 2620 

Thumbs, 278 

Thunder, 672, 1601, 1880 

Thunderbolt, 1566 

Thyme, 866 

Tiber, 739, 1045 

Tide, 164, 1815, 2287 

Tide of times, 2016 

Tides, 2290 

Tidings, 123, 2024 

Tiger, 1826 

Tired horse, 1322 

Tired mare, 2026 

Tithe, 1404 

Title-leaf, 2483 

Time, 122, 241, 362, 542, 544, 
763, 1049, Iir 4. 1118, 1133, 
1148, 1235,1445,1529,1647, 
1699, 1839, 1908, i960, 2017, 
2019, 2030, 2061 2064, 2073, 
2074, 2075, 2076, 2077, 2078, 
2079,2080, 2123,2134, 2232, 
2244, 2525, 2672, 2698 

Time and the hour, 2073 

Time (in music), 714 

Time, mode of reckoning (see 
Candle, Dial, Lark, Moon, 
Nightingale, Stars, Sun) 

Times, golden, 123 

Time's scythe, 1267 

Time taken by the forelock, 
1049 

'Union, 841 

Tithe, 2624 
'load, 831 

Toe of the peasant, 1654 
Toil, 2648 
Toleration, 2565 
Toll, - 1 

Tomb, 22r, 786, 1251 
Tombs of brass, 2035 



240 Index. 


To-morrow, 2134 


Trident, 672 


Tom, Poor, 1451 


Trifles, 170, 2165 


Tom's belly, 689 


Trifling foolish banquet, 2240 


Tongs and bones, 838 


Trippingly, 1588 


Tongue, 40, 47, 351, 443, 455, 


Triton of the minnows, 565 


461, 492, 580, 1135, 1 192, 


Triumphs, 113, 151, 962, 2602 


1219, 1563, 1588, 1589, 1642, 


Troops of friends, 1649 


1685, 1730, 1880, 2014, 2072, 


Troth, 1364 


2137, 2254, 2279, 2303, 2390, 


Trouble, 1366, 2466 (see Ad- 


2418, 2587 


versity, Calamity) 


Tongues, 82, 842, 1199, 1912, 


Troubled mind, 132, 1210 


2271 


Troy, 343, 2012 


Tongues in trees, 121 


True, 160 


Tongue-tied sorrows, 1870 


True beauty, 2170 


Tooth, 1091, 1291 


True-born gentleman, 1024 


Toothache, 649, i860 


True-devoted pilgrim, 18S 


Tooth, serpent's, 712 


True duty, 2573 


Torches, 2140, 2585 


True face, 1822 


Torture, 2122 


True grief, 2166 


Torturing hour, 2316 


True hope, 2167 


Touch of nature, 1363 


True knight, 94 


Tower of London, 733 


True love, 43 


Tower of strength, 1746 


True lovers, 2168 


Town, 2336, 2430 


True nobility, 2169 


Trade, 182, 1920, 2033 


True valour, 2214 


Tradition, 2447 


Trumpet, Trumpets, 210, 1583, 


Tragedian, 2182 


1584, 1868, 1890, 1913, 1914, 


Tragedy, 451 


1915, 2043, 2i 7 2 j 2 3°6, 2589 


Tragic volume, 2483 


Trumpeters, 2171 


Train, Honour's, 2594 


Trust, 1099, 1916, 2173, 2301 


Traitors, 1407, 2356 


Truth, 229, 558, 729, 885, 949, 


Tranquil mind, 408 


960, 1005, 1 107, 1 162, 1326, 


Transition, 390 


1338, 1632, 1720, 1764, T803, 


Trap, 1 198 


1828, 1849, 2036, 2103, 2151, 


Trash, 2417 


2175, 2176, 2177, 2178, 2179, 


Travail, 2070 


2260, 2377, 2388, 2613, 2676 


Travel, 331, 683 


Tunes, 1817 


Travellers, 1929, 2161 


Turf, 1364 


Treachery, 2158, 2382, 2425 


Turtle doves, 1075 


Treason, 25, 147, 1057, 1756, 


Twenty, 577, 757 


1859, 2162, 2163, 2164 


Twenty caged nightingales, 


Treasure, 1342, 1795 


2451 


Trees, 2397 {see Bay, Briars, 


Twenty pair of eyes, 1105 


Brier, Bush, Cedar, Oak, 


Twenty pound, 994 


Pine, Shrubs) 


Twenty, sweet and, 1772 


Trembling, 1821 


Twice-told tale, 1069 


Trembling winds, 1669 


Twine, 1888 


Tribute, 787 


Two thousand, 21 16 


Tricks, 1803 


Tyber (see Tiber) 



Index. 241 


Tyranny, 254, 1067, 1336, 


Unwelcome news, 1705 


1917 


Unwholesome weeds, 2198 


Tyrant custom, 191 8 


Unwillingness, 2601 


Tyrants, 437, 656, 1442, 21 10, 


Urn, 1022, 2153 


2537 


Use, 717, 1619, 1646, 2202 


Tyrants' crests, 2035 


Uses, base, 2155 


Tyrants' fears, 2187 


Uses of adversity, 161 1 




Uses of this world, 719 


Ugly, 545 


Usurpers, 2156 


Ugly clouds, 1765 


Usury, 508, 1646, 2343 


Ugly night, 1084 




Umpire, 1027 


Vagabond exile, 1058 


Umpire of men's miseries 


Vain pomp, 2204 


(Death), 1001 


Valiant, 601, 2045 


Unbated fire, 2375 


Valiant dead, 194 


Unbidden guests, 2189 


Valiant heart, 1920 


Unburied men, 2493 


Validity, 2638 


Uncertainty, 364 


Valour, 329, 585, 595, 6or f 


Uncle, 1201 


803, 831, 847, 898, 905, 


Unconsidered trifles, 170 


1367, 1666, 2012, 2023, 


Undaunted spirit, 2677 


2034, 2142, 2205, 2214, 


Undeserver, 1919 


2367, 2699 


Unfledg'd comrade, 356 


Value, 2295 


Unfolding star, 1088 


Vanity, 1833 


Ungrateful, 2601 


Vasty deep, 756 


Ungrown fry, 1246 


Vault, 1934 


Universal plodding, 2678 


Vein, 2042 


Unkindest cut, 2003 


Veins, 1821 


Unkindness, 477, 910, 942, 


Vein, the giving, 745 


2192 


Velvet, 583 


Unlucky days, 1980 


Vengeance, 809 


Unmannerly slave, 140 


Venison, 651 


Unmusical, 98 


Venison pasty, 2239 


Unnatural deeds, 2193 


Venom clamours, 1921 


Unpleasant words, 613 


Venom tooth, 1091 


Unprofitable, 719 


Venture, 1165, 1398 


Unprofitable chat, 1255 


Ventures, 1220 


Unquiet meals, 2194 


/ ',////s, 2206 


Unquiet slumbers, 162 


Verbiage (see Words) 


Unreal mockery, 609 


Verse, 2222, 2518 


Unreasonable creatures, 2195 


el, empty, 2651 


Unreasonable valour, 2367 


Vestal, 2468 


Unrespeetive boys, 979 


Viands, 1573 


Unruly l»l 


Vice, 916, 1829, 2052, 2129, 


Unruly waywardness, 2258 


2210, 2212, 2216, 2291 


Untainted heart, 2328 


Iniquity, 2057 


Unthrifty son, 2551 


1717 


Untimely storms, 2679 


Vict 


Unwelcome guests, 2 


2 °55. 2 57^ z'''V 

R 



242 Index. 


Victuals, 2027 


Walks, quiet, 2617 


Vigilance, 730 


' Walls, 1594 


Village cock, 1696 


Want, 2434, 2468 


Villain, 139, 1359, 1846, 2357, 


Wanton, 84, 161, 2218 


2385, 2438, 2634 


Wantonness, 1674 


Villainous bounty, 1272 


Wanton rushes, 1515 


Villainous man, 1844 


War, 582, 687, 726, 1252, 


Villainous smell, 1798 


x 355. 1582, 1786, 1918,2078, 


Villainy, 1273, 1852, 2174 


2082, 2090, 2141, 2398 (see 


Vine, 310, 442 


Agincourt, Battle, Con- 


Violent delights, 1879 


quests, Glory, Soldiers) 


Violent disease, 2008 


Warriors, English, 1599 


Violent fires, 22 n 


Wary walking, 963 


Violets, 193, 866, 988, 1014, 


Wasp tongue, 2444 


1841, 1924 


Wasted youth, 2535 


Viperous worm, 298 


Wasting lamps, 2485 


Vipers, 2634 


Watchful care, 2332 


Virtue, 65, 172, 281, 345, 605, 


Watching, 1867 


657, 702, 810, 916, 1159, 


Water, 79, 494, 620, 739, 


1416, 1442, 1568, 1617, 1829, 


1159, 1261, 1550, 1697, 2288, 


1830, 2117, 2205, 2212. 2213, 


2434, 2608 


2214, 2215, 2216, 2680, 2690 


Water-cakes, 1297 


Visage, 1873 


Water, holy, 681 


Visages, 1800 


Water-mill, 1184 


Visor, 855 


Water, rain, 681 


Vital breath, 2350 


Waves, 164, 1083, 2284, 2317, 


Vizor, 1273 


2373 (see Ocean, Sea) 


Vocation, 2099 


Wax, 529, 849, 2333 


Voice, 94, 246, 441, 476, 500, 


Waxen minds of women, 


548, 624, 1031, 1170, 1488, 


IJ 53 


1516, 1524, 1563, 1880, 1881, 


Way of life, 850 


2014 


Waywardness, 2258 


Volscians. 98, 824 


Weaker vessels, 2470 


Volume, 2483 


Weakest fruit, 1925 


Volumes in folio, 349 


Weakness, 209, 620, 753, 2660 


Voting, 586 


Weak words, 736 


Vow, JephthaJis, 2131 


Wealth, 259, 354, 388, 929, 


Vows, 1164, 1589, 2103, 2191, 


1 134, 1655, 1750, 2069, 2422, 


2649 


2477 


Voyage, 696, 1347, 1698, 1904, 


Weapon, 225, 455 


1933 


Weariness, 2226 


Vulgar heart, 130 


Weary, 188, 826, 1060 


Vulgarity, 236 


Weary bones, 137 




Weary sun, 1926 


Wages, 14 13 


Weav'd-up follies, 111 


Wailing, 1256, 2393, 2456, 


Weazel, 765 


2457 


Web of Life, 1927 


Wales, 899 


Wedding, 1569 (see Marriage) 


Walking shadow (Life), 1070 


Wedges, 2550 



Index 243 


Wedlock, 452, 1777 


Wife, 83, 846, 1221, 1322, 1429, 


Weed, 988 


1640, 2361, 2489 


Weeds, 1186, 1295, 1547, 1612, 


Wife (see Light wife) 


2198, 2671, 2682 


Wild boars, 379 


Weeds (mourning), 2534 


Wild laughter, 2136 


Weeping, 181, 705, 727, 764, 


Wildness, 598 


786, 865, 1003, 1365, 1715, 


Wild of Kent, 1838 


2034, 2347 (see Tears) 


Wild thyme, 866 


Weight of grief, 540 


Wilful men, 2157 


Weighty business, 2005 


11 Will" (the Poet's name), 


Welcome, 45, 180, 414, 678, 


1128 


867, 1059, 1454, 1545, 1658, 


Will, 584, 1931, 2632 


1776, 2144, 2189, 2247, 


Willing loan, 1646 


2248, 2249, 2250, 2251, 


Willing service, 2507 


2365, 2453, 2519, 2 5 2 o ( see 


Will of God, 269 


Greeting) 


Will of Heaven, 2661 


Welkin, 2067 


Win, 1949, 2091, 2452, 2512 


Well-favoured man, 21 14 


Wind, 251, 252, 724, 789, 872, 


Well-grac'd actor, 165 


1290, 1487, 1601, 1668, 1890, 


Well-spoken, 2255 


1904, 1933, 2196, 2265, 2428 


Welsh correction, 1018 


Wind and tide, 2287 


Welsh language, 2072 


Window, 268 


Welshman, 2023 


Window 'd raggedness, 1450 


Welshmen, 1928 


W T indow of the east, 132 


Wenches, 1912 [see Girl) 


Windows, 2149 


West (see Sunset) 


Wind-shaken, 599 


Whale, 2207 


Windy night, 490 


Wheat, 654 


Wine, 302, 418, 477, 484, 513, 


Wheel, potter's, 1218 


531, 562, 621, 739, 839, 968, 


Whetstone, 1693 


x 335. I 573» l8 44. 22 3 6 . 2 579 


Whining schoolboy, 1779 


(see Drink, Intemperance) 


Whip, 1293, 1321 


Wine of life, 1934 


Whipp'd, 2038 


Wing, 827, 1774 


Whipping, 1056, 2203 


Wing'd Cupid, n 13 


Whirligig of time, 122 


Wing of night, 1692 


Whirling of Justice, 2056 


Wings, 1155, 1669, 2443 


White cheeks, 1930 


Winning, 1264 


White hairs, 701 


Winnowed, 2265 


White herrings, 689 


Winter, 157, 436, 438, 1 2 


White rose, n3, 1024, 1780 


1248, 1480, 1892, 201 1, 2453 


Who ? 706 


Winter's night, 1275 


Why and wherefore, 2559 


Wire, 2038 


Wicked, 278 


Wisdom, 258, 469, 618, 679, 


Wi i()6 


904, 1656, 1708, 1851, °<. 


Wicked dreams, 1286 


1 r, 2n3, 2454, 2096 


Wicked friends, 1752 


Wise, the, 2061 


Wicked 1 '15 


fellow, 659 


Wicked world, 2277 


ely, 1362 


Widow, 4, 197, 786, 1003 


Wi e man, 1708 

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244 I?idex. 


Wise men, 2456, 2457 


1209, I2 87. 1354. IS 21 ! X S99. 


Wise saws, 119 


1637, 1870, 2152, 2176, 2298, 


Wishes, good, 402, 1722 


2473. 2474. 2475. 2476, 2494, 


Wit, 37, 92, 238, 256, 349, 382, 


2665, 2670, 2673, 2683 


622, 683, 749, 1131, 1320, 


Words, household, 1778 


1693, 1845, 1983, 1999, 2200, 


Words of Mercury, 1936 


2268 


Work, 190, 785 


Witchcraft, 1998 


Working-day world, 2595 


Witches, 2264 


Workmen, 2371 


Withered flower, 1248 


World, 80, 581, 642, 671, 672, 


Wives, 782, 1 125, 1 178, 1530, 


697, 698, 719, 751, 790, 864, 


1861 


957, 1094, 1321, 1363, 1421, 


Woe, 940, 1366, 2032, 2370, 


1422, 1428, 1617, 1723, 1754, 


2 45 6 - 2 457. 2467, 2478 


1816, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 


Woeful ballad, 120 


2006, 2204, 2277, 2379, 2436, 


Woeful pageants, 2006 


2501, 2595, 2608 


Woe-wearied tongue, 1563 


Worldly pleasure, 554 


Wolf, 628, 1557, 1935, 2217 


Worldly things, 2601 


Woman, Women, 26, 199, 200, 


World, rough, 2209 


201, 373, 443, 453, 458, 699, 


World's report, 1468 


718, 726, 782,900, 928, 1007, 


Worm, 298, 555, 1889, 2521 


1040, 1051, 1397, 1464, 1471, 


(see Glow worm) 


1490, 1517, 1523, 1542, 1642, 


Worm-eaten nut, 780 


1921, 2025, 2085, 2117, 2188, 


Worm i' the bud, 1520 


2200, 2221, 2402, 2439, 2468, 


Worship, 489 


2469, 2470, 2471, 2472, 2563 


Worshipp'd sun, 132 


(see Beauty) 


Worst, the, 1942, 2119, 2124, 


Woman, impudent, 198 


2403 


Woman, mannish, 198 


Worth, 678, 1386, 1581, 1754, 


Woman's command, 1641 


1755, 2296 


Woman's mood, 2444 


Worthies, Nine, 2012 


Woman's nay, 563 


Worthy man, 596 


Woman's reason, 2598 


Worthy men, 1737 


Woman's tear, 753 


Wounding, 169 


Woman's tears, 813 


Wounds, 479, 603, 1 63 1, 1794, 


Woman's voice, 548, 624 


2337 


Woman's wit, 1131 


Wrangling. 2525 


Women's gifts, 607 


Wrathful dove, 2045 


Women's rheum, 181 


Wreaths of victory, 2055 


Wonder, 818, 869, 947, 1869, 


Wren, 1792, 1937 


2254, 2271 


Wrestling, 964 


Woodcocks, 1589 


Wretchedness, 779 


Woods, 1738 


Wretches, 1626 


Wooers, 401 


Wrinkle, 2019 


Wooing, 312, 398, 1517, 1523, 


Wrinkled age, 1476 


2221, 2452 


Wrinkles, 2075 


Word of promise, 100 


Writing, 287, 349, 613, 981, 


Words, 19, 532, 622, 666, 684, 


1305. *75*. 2114,2158,2387, 


736, 860, 889, 955, 1005, 


2465, 2481, 2526, 2629 



Writing fair, 919 
Written pamphlets, 316 
Wrongs, 2698 

Yarn, 1927 

Yearly course, 1946 

Years, 1994, 2258 

Yellow, 988 

Yellow leaf, 850 

Yeomen, 417 

Yesterday, 71, 270 

Yorick 56 

Young ambition, 2081 

Young blood, 2509 



Young bulls, 2218 
Young men's love, 251 1 
Youth, 88, no, 193, 205, 257, 

2 73- 33°. 3 82 > 43 8 , 6 3 8 > 66o > 
679, 683, 1215, 1222, 1311, 
1409, 1593, 1617, 1674, 1677, 
i7 2 3. *772> t-777, l8 65, 1951, 
2075, 2523, 2532, 2533, 2534, 
2535. 2549. 2605 

Youthful goats, 2218 

Youthful steers, 1076 

Youthful wisdom, 904 

Zealous kiss, 2201 




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